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requests-cache

Requests-cache is a transparent persistent cache for requests (version >= 1.1.0) library.

Usage example

Just write:

import requests
import requests_cache

requests_cache.install_cache('demo_cache')

And all responses with headers and cookies will be transparently cached to demo_cache.sqlite database. For example, following code will take only 1-2 seconds instead 10, and will run instantly on next launch:

for i in range(10):
    requests.get('http://httpbin.org/delay/1')

It can be useful when you are creating some simple data scraper with constantly changing parsing logic or data format, and don’t want to redownload pages or write complex error handling and persistence.

Note

requests-cache ignores all cache headers, it just caches the data for the time you specify.

History

0.4.3 (2013-09-12)

  • Fix response.from_cache not set in hooks

0.4.2 (2013-08-25)

  • Fix UnpickleableError for gzip responses

0.4.1 (2013-08-19)

  • requests_cache.enabled() context manager

  • Compatibility with Requests 1.2.3 cookies handling

0.4.0 (2013-04-25)

  • Redis backend. Thanks to @michaelbeaumont

  • Fix for changes in Requests 1.2.0 hooks dispatching

0.3.0 (2013-02-24)

  • Support for Requests 1.x.x

  • CachedSession

  • Many backward incompatible changes

0.2.1 (2013-01-13)

  • Fix broken PyPi package

0.2.0 (2013-01-12)

  • Last backward compatible version for Requests 0.14.2

0.1.3 (2012-05-04)

  • Thread safety for default sqlite backend

  • Take into account the POST parameters when cache is configured with ‘POST’ in allowable_methods

0.1.2 (2012-05-02)

  • Reduce number of sqlite database write operations

  • fast_save option for sqlite backend

0.1.1 (2012-04-11)

  • Fix: restore responses from response.history

  • Internal refactoring (MemoryCache -> BaseCache, reduce_response and restore_response moved to BaseCache)

  • connection option for MongoCache

0.1.0 (2012-04-10)

  • initial PyPI release

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