What is the fastest way to send 100,000 HTTP requests in Python?

Question

I am opening a file which has 100,000 URL\'s. I need to send an HTTP request to each URL and print the status code. I am using Python 2.6, and so far looked at the many con

Answer 1

I know this is an old question, but in Python 3.7 you can do this using asyncio and aiohttp.

import asyncio
import aiohttp
from aiohttp import ClientSession, ClientConnectorError

async def fetch_html(url: str, session: ClientSession, **kwargs) -> tuple:
    try:
        resp = await session.request(method="GET", url=url, **kwargs)
    except ClientConnectorError:
        return (url, 404)
    return (url, resp.status)

async def make_requests(urls: set, **kwargs) -> None:
    async with ClientSession() as session:
        tasks = []
        for url in urls:
            tasks.append(
                fetch_html(url=url, session=session, **kwargs)
            )
        results = await asyncio.gather(*tasks)

    for result in results:
        print(f'{result[1]} - {str(result[0])}')

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import pathlib
    import sys

    assert sys.version_info >= (3, 7), "Script requires Python 3.7+."
    here = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent

    with open(here.joinpath("urls.txt")) as infile:
        urls = set(map(str.strip, infile))

    asyncio.run(make_requests(urls=urls))

You can read more about it and see an example here.