Youtube data api'youtube.search.list()' returning handshake error

[rajigit]

I'm invoking youtube data api "youtube.search.list()" to retrieve channel ids for a company name.
API returns data for about 3000 requests.After 3000 requests,I'm getting a handshake error.Below is the full stack trace.
File "/home/ubuntu/jenkins/workspace/youtube_data_collection/MyPy/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/oauth2client/util.py", line 137, in positional_wrapper
return wrapped(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/ubuntu/jenkins/workspace/youtube_data_collection/MyPy/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/googleapiclient/http.py", line 835, in execute
method=str(self.method), body=self.body, headers=self.headers)
File "/home/ubuntu/jenkins/workspace/youtube_data_collection/MyPy/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/googleapiclient/http.py", line 175, in _retry_request
raise exception
SSLError: _ssl.c:495: The handshake operation timed out

Can you please help me in setting a correct timeout period while making calls via youtube data api?