request-boost 0.6

A better requests and urllib. A simple package for hitting multiple URLs and performing GET/POST requests in parallel.

request-boost

A better requests and urllib package.
A simple package for hitting multiple URLs and performing GET/POST requests in parallel.

Setup

pip install request-boost

Important: Virtual Environment is recommended

Usage

# Sample data
number_of_sample_urls = 1000
urls = [ f'https://postman-echo.com/get?random_data={test_no}' for test_no in range(number_of_sample_urls) ]
headers = [{'sample_header':test_no} for test_no in range(number_of_sample_urls)]

from request_boost import boosted_requests

results = boosted_requests(urls=urls)
print(results)

from request_boost import boosted_requests

results = boosted_requests(urls=urls, no_workers=16, max_tries=5, timeout=5, headers=headers, verbose=True, parse_json=True)
print(results)

from request_boost import boosted_requests

# Config
number_of_sample_urls = 100

# Sample data
urls = [f'https://postman-echo.com/get?random_data={test_no}' for test_no in range(number_of_sample_urls)]
post_urls = [f'https://postman-echo.com/post' for test_no in range(number_of_sample_urls)]
headers = [{'sample_header': test_no} for test_no in range(number_of_sample_urls)]
data = [{'sample_data': test_no} for test_no in range(number_of_sample_urls)] # Required for POST requests, 
#For POST request data can be just list of empty dict but not NONE

simple_results = boosted_requests(urls=urls, no_workers=16, max_tries=5, timeout=5, headers=None, verbose=False, parse_json=True)
header_results = boosted_requests(urls=urls, no_workers=16, max_tries=5, timeout=5, headers=headers, parse_json=True)
post_results = boosted_requests(urls=post_urls, no_workers=16, max_tries=5, timeout=5, headers=headers, data=data, verbose=True, parse_json=True)

Documentation

boosted_requests(
    urls,
    no_workers=32,
    max_tries=5,
    timeout=10,
    headers=None,
    data=None,
    verbose=True,
    parse_json=True,
)

Get data from APIs in parallel by creating workers that process in the background
    :param urls: list of URLS
    :param no_workers: maximum number of parallel processes {Default::32}
    :param max_tries: Maximum number of tries before failing for a specific URL {Default::5}
    :param timeout: Waiting time per request {Default::10}
    :param headers: Headers if any for the URL requests
    :param data: data if any for the URL requests (Wherever not None a POST request is made)
    :param verbose: Show progress [True or False] {Default::True}
    :param parse_json: Parse response to json [True or False] {Default::True}
    :return: List of response for each API (order is maintained)

Credits

Maintained by

Kuldeep Singh Sidhu

Github: github/singhsidhukuldeep https://github.com/singhsidhukuldeep

Website: Kuldeep Singh Sidhu (Website) http://kuldeepsinghsidhu.com

LinkedIn: Kuldeep Singh Sidhu (LinkedIn) https://www.linkedin.com/in/singhsidhukuldeep/

Contributors

The full list of all the contributors is available here

Say Thanks

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Steps for publishing to pypi [This is just for me, Maybe!]

• pip3 install setuptools twine
• Go to project folder
• python3 setup.py sdist
• twine upload --repository-url https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/*

OR

Go to your project folder and:

pip3 install setuptools twine

python3 setup.py sdist
twine upload --repository-url https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/*

Current Status

CHANGE LOG

0.1 (16/09/2021)

• Released first version(stable) of request-boost.

0.2 (16/09/2021)

• Fixed header issue
• Added POST functionality

0.3.1 (17/09/2021)

• Added Verbose

0.4 (17/09/2021)

• Added Verbose timing
• Improved performance

0.5 (16/10/2021)

• Added Encoding fix
• Improved Readability

0.6 (29/12/2021)

• Added option to not parse the JSON
• Improved documentation

Read more at https://github.com/singhsidhukuldeep/request-boost