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Behold, the power of aiohttp_ client with Requests <http://docs.python-requests.org/>
_ simplicity:
.. code-block:: python
import asyncio
import aiohttp
from aiohttp_requests import requests
async def main():
response = await requests.get('https://api.github.com', auth=aiohttp.BasicAuth('user', 'password'))
text = await response.text()
json = await response.json()
return response, text, json
r, text, json = asyncio.run(main())
>>> r
<ClientResponse(https://api.github.com/) [200 OK]>
>>> r.status
200
>>> r.headers['Content-Type']
'application/json; charset=utf-8'
>>> r.get_encoding()
'utf-8'
>>> text
'{"current_user_url":"https://api.github.com/user",...'
>>> json
{'current_user_url': 'https://api.github.com/user', ... }
Plus built-in concurrency control to do multiple requests safely:
.. code-block:: python
async def main():
# Pass in a list of urls instead of just one. Optionally pass in as_iterator=True to iterate the responses.
responses = await requests.get(['https://api.github.com'] * 2, auth=aiohttp.BasicAuth('user', 'password'))
print(responses) # [<ClientResponse(https://...) [200 OK]>, , <ClientResponse(https://...) [200 OK]>]
# It defaults to 10 concurrent requests maximum. If you can handle more, then set it higher:
requests.max_concurrency = 100
asyncio.run(main())
The requests
object is just proxying get
and other HTTP verb methods to aiohttp.ClientSession
, which returns aiohttp.ClientResponse
. To do anything else, read the aiohttp_ doc.
.. _aiohttp.ClientSession
: https://docs.aiohttp.org/en/stable/client_reference.html?#aiohttp.ClientSession
.. _aiohttp.ClientResponse
: https://docs.aiohttp.org/en/stable/client_reference.html?#aiohttp.ClientResponse
.. _aiohttp: https://docs.aiohttp.org/en/stable/
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FAQs
A thin wrapper for aiohttp client with Requests simplicity
We found that aiohttp-requests demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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