hall-requests-async
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I need to clarify an important point: the `requests` library does not have an `async` function called `requests.get.async()`. The `requests` library is synchronous, not asynchronous.
However, I can show you how to accomplish concurrent HTTP requests using either:
1. `aiohttp` (asynchronous HTTP client)
2. `concurrent.futures` with `requests`
Here's the code using `aiohttp` which is the most appropriate for true async HTTP requests:
```python
import aiohttp
import asyncio
async def fetch_json(session, url):
"""Fetch JSON from a URL"""
try:
async with session.get(url) as response:
if response.status == 200:
return await response.json()
else:
print(f"Error: {response.status} for {url}")
return None
except Exception as e:
print(f"Exception for {url}: {e}")
return None
async def fetch_urls_concurrently(urls):
"""Fetch multiple URLs concurrently and return their JSON bodies"""
async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
tasks = [fetch_json(session, url) for url in urls]
results = await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
return results
# Example usage
if __name__ == "__main__":
# List of URLs to fetch
urls = [
"https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1",
"https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/2",
"https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/3"
]
# Fetch all URLs concurrently
json_results = asyncio.run(fetch_urls_concurrently(urls))
# Print results
for i, result in enumerate(json_results):
if result:
print(f"URL {i+1} result: {result}")
```
If you want to use the standard `requests` library with concurrent execution (but not truly async), here's how you could do it with threading:
```python
import requests
from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
import json
def fetch_json(url):
"""Fetch JSON from a URL using requests"""
try:
response = requests.get(url)
if response.status_code == 200:
return response.json()
else:
print(f"Error: {response.status_code} for {url}")
return None
except Exception as e:
print(f"Exception for {url}: {e}")
return None
def fetch_urls_concurrently(urls, max_workers=5):
"""Fetch multiple URLs concurrently using requests"""
with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=max_workers) as executor:
results = list(executor.map(fetch_json, urls))
return results
# Example usage
if __name__ == "__main__":
# List of URLs to fetch
urls = [
"https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1",
"https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/2",
"https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/3"
]
# Fetch all URLs concurrently
json_results = fetch_urls_concurrently(urls)
# Print results
for i, result in enumerate(json_results):
if result:
print(f"URL {i+1} result: {result}")
```
The first example using `aiohttp` is the correct approach for true asynchronous HTTP requests, while the second shows how to achieve concurrency with the synchronous `requests` library.