web_requests.py

import urllib.request                                                                                                                                                              
import time
import random

while True:
    try:
        response = urllib.request.urlopen('https://apple.com/')
        html = response.read()
    except:
        print("some error but graceful handling (aka ignoring)")
    dur = random.randint(0,240)
    print("Goodnight Moon. Sleeping for {}sec".format(dur))
    time.sleep(dur)