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async-throttle
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Throttling made simple, easy, async.
This example fetches the <title>
tag of the supplied websites,
but it processes a maximum of two at a time.
// deps
const fetch = require('node-fetch')
const createThrottle = require('async-throttle')
const cheerio = require('cheerio').load
// code
const throttle = createThrottle(2)
const urls = ['https://zeit.co', 'https://google.com', /* … */]
Promise.all(urls.map((url) => throttle(async () => {
console.log('Processing', url)
const res = await fetch(url)
const data = await res.text()
const $ = cheerio(data)
return $('title').text()
})))
.then((titles) => console.log('Titles:', titles))
To run this example:
git clone git@github.com:zeit/async-throttle
cd async-throttle
npm install
npm run example
FAQs
Throttle asynchronous Promise-based tasks
The npm package async-throttle receives a total of 20,859 weekly downloads. As such, async-throttle popularity was classified as popular.
We found that async-throttle demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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