Asynchronous Requests with Python requests

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.

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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)