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Check out the quick fixes for 524 here: Community Tip - Fixing Error 524: A timeout occurred
If you are getting this on a slow endpoint (synchronizing sounds slow), Cloudflare’s proxy will automatically timeout after 100 seconds without returning data. You could turn that into a fire and forget job, run the script on a gray-clouded/dns-only subdomain, change to a job based polling system, etc.