hishel 0.0.16

Persistent cache implementation for httpx and httpcore

Hishel - An elegant HTTP Cache implementation for httpx and httpcore.

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Hishel (հիշել, remember) is a library that implements HTTP Caching for HTTPX and HTTP Core libraries in accordance with RFC 9111, the most recent caching specification.

Features

• 💾 Persistence: Responses are cached in the persistent memory for later use.
• 🤲 Compatibility: It is completely compatible with your existing transports or connection pools, whether they are default, custom, or provided by third-party libraries.
• 🤗 Easy to use: You continue to use httpx while also enabling web cache.
• 🧠 Smart: Attempts to clearly implement RFC 9111, understands Vary, Etag, Last-Modified, Cache-Control, and Expires headers, and handles response re-validation automatically.
• ⚙️ Configurable: You have complete control over how the responses are stored and serialized.
• 📦 From the package:
  • Built-in support for File system, Redis, and SQLite backends.
  • Built-in support for JSON, YAML, and pickle serializers.
• 🚀 Very fast: Your requests will be even faster if there are no IO operations.

Documentation

Go through the Hishel documentation.

QuickStart

Install Hishel using pip:

$ pip install hishel

Let's begin with an example of a httpx client.

import hishel

with hishel.CacheClient() as client:
    client.get("https://hishel.com")  # 0.4749558370003797s
    client.get("https://hishel.com")  # 0.002873589000046195s (~250x faster!)

or in asynchronous context

import hishel

async with hishel.AsyncCacheClient() as client:
    await client.get("https://hishel.com")
    await client.get("https://hishel.com")  # takes from the cache

HTTPX and HTTP Core

Hishel also supports the transports of HTTPX and the connection pools of HTTP Core.

Hishel respects existing transports and connection pools and can therefore work on top of them, making hishel a very compatible and flexible library.

Transports example:

import httpx
import hishel

transport = httpx.HTTPTransport()
cache_transport = hishel.CacheTransport(transport=transport)

req = httpx.Request("GET", "https://hishel.com")

cache_transport.handle_request(req)
cache_transport.handle_request(req)  # takes from the cache

Connection Pool example:

import httpcore
import hishel

pool = hishel.CacheConnectionPool(pool=httpcore.ConnectionPool())

pool.request("GET", "https://hishel.com")
pool.request("GET", "https://hishel.com")  # takes from the cache

How and where are the responses saved?

The responses are stored by Hishel in storages. You have complete control over them; you can change storage or even write your own if necessary.

Contributing

You can open the pull request by following these instructions if you want to improve Hishel. 💓

• Fork the project.
• Make change.
• Open the pull request.

Changelog

0.0.16 (25/10/2023)

• Add install_cache function. (#95)
• Add sqlite support. (#92)
• Move ttl argument to BaseStorage class. (#94)

0.0.14 (23/10/2023)

• Replace AsyncResponseStream with AsyncCacheStream. (#86)
• Add must-understand response directive support. (#90)

0.0.13 (5/10/2023)

• Add support for Python 3.12. (#71)
• Fix connections releasing from the connection pool. (#83)

0.0.12 (8/9/2023)

• Add metadata into the response extensions. (#56)

0.0.11 (15/8/2023)

• Add support for request cache-control directives. (#42)
• Drop httpcore dependency. (#40)
• Support HTTP methods only if they are defined as cacheable. (#37)

0.0.10 (7/8/2023)

• Add Response metadata. (#33)
• Add API Reference documentation. (#30)
• Use stale responses only if the client is disconnected. (#28)

0.0.9 (1/8/2023)

• Expose Controller API. (#23)

0.0.8 (31/7/2023)

• Skip redis tests if the server was not found. (#16)
• Decrease sleep time for the storage ttl tests. (#18)
• Fail coverage under 100. (#19)

0.0.7 (30/7/2023)

• Add support for Heuristic Freshness. (#11)
• Change Controller.cache_heuristically to Controller.allow_heuristics. (#12)
• Handle import errors. (#13)

0.0.6 (29/7/2023)

• Fix Vary header validation. (#8)
• Dump original requests with the responses. (#7)

0.0.5 (29/7/2023)

• Fix httpx response streaming.

0.0.4 (29/7/2023)

• Change YamlSerializer name to YAMLSerializer.

0.0.3 (28/7/2023)

• Add from_cache response extension.
• Add typing_extensions into the requirements.

0.0.2 (25/7/2023)

• Add redis support.
• Make backends thread and task safe.
• Add black as a new linter.
• Add an expire time for cached responses.