I tried the sample provided within the documentation of the requests library for python.

With async.map(rs), I get the response codes, but I want to get the content of each page requested. This, for example, does not work:

out = async.map(rs)
print out[0].content

Note

The below answer is not applicable to requests v0.13.0+. The asynchronous functionality was moved to grequests after this question was written. However, you could just replace requests with grequests below and it should work.

I’ve left this answer as is to reflect the original question which was about using requests < v0.13.0.

To do multiple tasks with async.map asynchronously you have to:

1. Define a function for what you want to do with each object (your task)
2. Add that function as an event hook in your request
3. Call async.map on a list of all the requests / actions

Example:

from requests import async
# If using requests > v0.13.0, use
# from grequests import async

urls = [
    'http://python-requests.org',
    'http://httpbin.org',
    'http://python-guide.org',
    'http://kennethreitz.com'
]

# A simple task to do to each response object
def do_something(response):
    print response.url

# A list to hold our things to do via async
async_list = []

for u in urls:
    # The "hooks = {..." part is where you define what you want to do
    # 
    # Note the lack of parentheses following do_something, this is
    # because the response will be used as the first argument automatically
    action_item = async.get(u, hooks = {'response' : do_something})

    # Add the task to our list of things to do via async
    async_list.append(action_item)

# Do our list of things to do via async
async.map(async_list)

async is now an independent module : grequests.

See here : https://github.com/kennethreitz/grequests

And there: Ideal method for sending multiple HTTP requests over Python?

installation:

$ pip install grequests

usage:

build a stack:

import grequests

urls = [
    'http://www.heroku.com',
    'http://tablib.org',
    'http://httpbin.org',
    'http://python-requests.org',
    'http://kennethreitz.com'
]

rs = (grequests.get(u) for u in urls)

send the stack

grequests.map(rs)

result looks like

[<Response [200]>, <Response [200]>, <Response [200]>, <Response [200]>, <Response [200]>]

grequests don’t seem to set a limitation for concurrent requests, ie when multiple requests are sent to the same server.

I tested both requests-futures and grequests. Grequests is faster but brings monkey patching and additional problems with dependencies. requests-futures is several times slower than grequests. I decided to write my own and simply wrapped requests into ThreadPoolExecutor and it was almost as fast as grequests, but without external dependencies.

import requests
import concurrent.futures

def get_urls():
    return ["url1","url2"]

def load_url(url, timeout):
    return requests.get(url, timeout = timeout)

with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=20) as executor:

    future_to_url = {executor.submit(load_url, url, 10): url for url in     get_urls()}
    for future in concurrent.futures.as_completed(future_to_url):
        url = future_to_url[future]
        try:
            data = future.result()
        except Exception as exc:
            resp_err = resp_err + 1
        else:
            resp_ok = resp_ok + 1

maybe requests-futures is another choice.

from requests_futures.sessions import FuturesSession

session = FuturesSession()
# first request is started in background
future_one = session.get('http://httpbin.org/get')
# second requests is started immediately
future_two = session.get('http://httpbin.org/get?foo=bar')
# wait for the first request to complete, if it hasn't already
response_one = future_one.result()
print('response one status: {0}'.format(response_one.status_code))
print(response_one.content)
# wait for the second request to complete, if it hasn't already
response_two = future_two.result()
print('response two status: {0}'.format(response_two.status_code))
print(response_two.content)

It is also recommended in the office document. If you don’t want involve gevent, it’s a good one.

I have a lot of issues with most of the answers posted – they either use deprecated libraries that have been ported over with limited features, or provide a solution with too much magic on the execution of the request, making it difficult to error handle. If they do not fall into one of the above categories, they’re 3rd party libraries or deprecated.

Some of the solutions works alright purely in http requests, but the solutions fall short for any other kind of request, which is ludicrous. A highly customized solution is not necessary here.

Simply using the python built-in library asyncio is sufficient enough to perform asynchronous requests of any type, as well as providing enough fluidity for complex and usecase specific error handling.

import asyncio

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()

def do_thing(params):
    async def get_rpc_info_and_do_chores(id):
        # do things
        response = perform_grpc_call(id)
        do_chores(response)

    async def get_httpapi_info_and_do_chores(id):
        # do things
        response = requests.get(URL)
        do_chores(response)

    async_tasks = []
    for element in list(params.list_of_things):
       async_tasks.append(loop.create_task(get_chan_info_and_do_chores(id)))
       async_tasks.append(loop.create_task(get_httpapi_info_and_do_chores(ch_id)))

    loop.run_until_complete(asyncio.gather(*async_tasks))

How it works is simple. You’re creating a series of tasks you’d like to occur asynchronously, and then asking a loop to execute those tasks and exit upon completion. No extra libraries subject to lack of maintenance, no lack of functionality required.

I know this has been closed for a while, but I thought it might be useful to promote another async solution built on the requests library.

list_of_requests = ['http://moop.com', 'http://doop.com', ...]

from simple_requests import Requests
for response in Requests().swarm(list_of_requests):
    print response.content

The docs are here: http://pythonhosted.org/simple-requests/

from threading import Thread

threads=list()

for requestURI in requests:
    t = Thread(target=self.openURL, args=(requestURI,))
    t.start()
    threads.append(t)

for thread in threads:
    thread.join()

...

def openURL(self, requestURI):
    o = urllib2.urlopen(requestURI, timeout = 600)
    o...

If you want to use asyncio, then requests-async provides async/await functionality for requests – https://github.com/encode/requests-async

I have been using python requests for async calls against github’s gist API for some time.

For an example, see the code here:

https://github.com/davidthewatson/flasgist/blob/master/views.py#L60-72

This style of python may not be the clearest example, but I can assure you that the code works. Let me know if this is confusing to you and I will document it.

You can use httpx for that.

import httpx

async def get_async(url):
    async with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:
        return await client.get(url)

urls = ["http://google.com", "http://wikipedia.org"]

# Note that you need an async context to use `await`.
await asyncio.gather(*map(get_async, urls))

if you want a functional syntax, the gamla lib wraps this into get_async.

Then you can do

await gamla.map(gamla.get_async(10), ["http://google.com", "http://wikipedia.org"])

The 10 is the timeout in seconds.

(disclaimer: I am its author)

I have also tried some things using the asynchronous methods in python, how ever I have had much better luck using twisted for asynchronous programming. It has fewer problems and is well documented. Here is a link of something simmilar to what you are trying in twisted.

http://pythonquirks.blogspot.com/2011/04/twisted-asynchronous-http-request.html