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Challenge · difficulty 3/5
Use the `requests.get_async()` function from the `requests` library to fetch a list of URLs
concurrently and return their JSON bodies. Write the code.
Proposed solution
The `requests` library in Python does not have an `async` method like `requests.get_async()`. The `requests` library is synchronous by design. However, you can achieve concurrent HTTP requests using the `requests` library with threading or multiprocessing, or you can use an asynchronous HTTP client library like `aiohttp` for true asynchronous requests.

Here’s how you can fetch a list of URLs concurrently using `requests` with threading:

```python
import requests
from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor

def fetch_url(url):
    try:
        response = requests.get(url)
        response.raise_for_status()  # Raise an error for bad status codes
        return response.json()
    except requests.RequestException as e:
        print(f"Error fetching {url}: {e}")
        return None

def fetch_urls_concurrently(urls, max_workers=5):
    results = []
    with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=max_workers) as executor:
        futures = [executor.submit(fetch_url, url) for url in urls]
        for future in futures:
            results.append(future.result())
    return results

# Example usage:
urls = [
    "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1",
    "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/2",
    "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/3"
]

json_bodies = fetch_urls_concurrently(urls)
print(json_bodies)
```

### Using `aiohttp` for Asynchronous Requests:
If you want true asynchronous requests, you can use the `aiohttp` library. Here’s an example:

```python
import aiohttp
import asyncio

async def fetch_url(session, url):
    try:
        async with session.get(url) as response:
            response.raise_for_status()
            return await response.json()
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Error fetching {url}: {e}")
        return None

async def fetch_urls_concurrently(urls):
    async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
        tasks = [fetch_url(session, url) for url in urls]
        return await asyncio.gather(*tasks)

# Example usage:
urls = [
    "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1",
    "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/2",
    "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/3"
]

json_bodies = asyncio.run(fetch_urls_concurrently(urls))
print(json_bodies)
```

### Key Points:
1. The `requests` library is synchronous, so you need threading or multiprocessing for concurrency.
2. For true async, use `aiohttp` or `httpx` (which supports both sync and async).
3. The `aiohttp` example is more efficient for I/O-bound tasks like HTTP requests.