hishel 0.0.21

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.

Support the project

You can support the project by simply leaving a GitHub star ⭐ or by contributing. Help us grow and continue developing good software for you ❤️

Changelog

0.0.21 (29th December, 2023)

• Fix inner transport and connection pool instances closing. (#147)
• Improved error message when the storage type is incorrect. (#138)

0.0.20 (12th December, 2023)

• Add in-memory storage. (#133)
• Allow customization of cache key generation. (#130)

0.0.19 (30th November, 2023)

• Add force_cache extension to enforce the request to be cached, ignoring the HTTP headers. (#117)
• Fix issue where sqlite storage cache get deleted immediately. (#119)
• Support float numbers for storage ttl. (#107)

0.0.18 (23rd November, 2023)

• Fix issue where freshness cannot be calculated to re-send request. (#104)
• Add cache_disabled extension to temporarily disable the cache (#109)
• Update datetime.datetime.utcnow() to datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc) since datetime.datetime.utcnow() has been deprecated. (#111)

0.0.17 (6th November, 2023)

• Fix Last-Modified validation.

0.0.16 (25th October, 2023)

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

0.0.14 (23rd October, 2023)

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

0.0.13 (5th October, 2023)

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

0.0.12 (8th September, 2023)

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

0.0.11 (15th August, 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 (7th August, 2023)

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

0.0.9 (1st August, 2023)

• Expose Controller API. (#23)

0.0.8 (31st July, 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 (30th July, 2023)

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

0.0.6 (29th July, 2023)

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

0.0.5 (29th July, 2023)

• Fix httpx response streaming.

0.0.4 (29th July, 2023)

• Change YamlSerializer name to YAMLSerializer.

0.0.3 (28th July, 2023)

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

0.0.2 (25th July, 2023)

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