Query times out

[yahya-plotprojects]

When running the following query:

area(3600165475);
(
node["amenity"="fast_food"](area);
way["amenity"="fast_food"](area);
relation["amenity"="fast_food"](area);
);
out center;

I get this error:

Exception: [overpass] error in result (cache/overpass-0e7ebc0bbe8cd160b8389a3314ba688ba0f3c47f): [timeout:500][out:json];area(3600165475);
            (
            node["amenity"="fast_food"](area);
            way["amenity"="fast_food"](area);
            relation["amenity"="fast_food"](area);
            );
            out center;

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Exception: [overpass] runtime error: Query timed out in "print" at line 7 after 26 seconds.
    return search_areas(search_term_type, search_term, areas)
  File "/Users/work/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/PyCharmCE2020.1/scratches/scratch_4.py", line 181, in search_areas
    res = scrape_data(search_query)
  File "/Users/work/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/PyCharmCE2020.1/scratches/scratch_4.py", line 100, in scrape_data
    r = api.query(search_query, timeout=500)
  File "/Users/work/plotproject.scrips/lib/python3.7/site-packages/OSMPythonTools/internal/cacheObject.py", line 42, in query
    raise(Exception('[' + self._prefix + '] error in result (' + filename + '): ' + queryString))
Exception: [overpass] error in result (cache/overpass-0e7ebc0bbe8cd160b8389a3314ba688ba0f3c47f): [timeout:500][out:json];area(3600165475);
            (
            node["amenity"="fast_food"](area);
            way["amenity"="fast_food"](area);
            relation["amenity"="fast_food"](area);
            );
            out center;

I am using the following code where I set the timeout to be 500 seconds:

search_query = f"""(
            node["{search_term_type}"="{search_term}"]({search_box});
            way["{search_term_type}"="{search_term}"]({search_box});
            relation["{search_term_type}"="{search_term}"]({search_box});
            );
            out center;"""
api = Overpass()
r = api.query(search_query, timeout=500)

OSMPythonTools version is 0.2.8

However, when I run the same query in https://overpass-turbo.eu/ it works just fine. It also works fine on Postman

[EsbernJakobsen]

You are not constructing your search query correctly. You are using a multiline f-string, whereas you need to use the overpassQueryBuilder as described in the docs. You can then pass the returned search_query string to the query() function.

[mocnik-science]

Yes, the answer provided is correct. (Thanks!!)