diff --git a/src/utils/requests.jl b/src/utils/requests.jl
index f3c0b23..c83da08 100644
--- a/src/utils/requests.jl
+++ b/src/utils/requests.jl
@@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ function github_request(api::GitHubAPI, request_method, endpoint;
     _headers = convert(Dict{String, String}, headers)
     !haskey(_headers, "User-Agent") && (_headers["User-Agent"] = "GitHub-jl")
     if request_method == HTTP.get
-        r = request_method(merge(api_endpoint, query = params), _headers, redirect = allowredirects, status_exception = false)
+        r = request_method(merge(api_endpoint, query = params), _headers, redirect = allowredirects, status_exception = false, idle_timeout=20)
     else
-        r = request_method(string(api_endpoint), _headers, JSON.json(params), redirect = allowredirects, status_exception = false)
+        r = request_method(string(api_endpoint), _headers, JSON.json(params), redirect = allowredirects, status_exception = false, idle_timeout=20)
     end
     handle_error && handle_response_error(r)
     return r