How to speed up API requests?

Question

I\'ve constructed the following little program for getting phone numbers using google\'s place api but it\'s pretty slow. When I\'m testing with 6 items it takes anywhere fr

Answer 1

Most of the time isn't spent computing your request. The time is spent in communication with the server. That is a thing you cannot control.

However, you may be able to speed it along using parallelization. Create a separate thread for each request as a start.

from threading import Thread

def request_search_terms(*args):
    #your logic for a request goes here
    pass

#...

threads = []
for st in searchTerms:
    threads.append (Thread (target=request_search_terms, args=(st,)))
    threads[-1].start()

for t in threads:
    t.join();

Then use a thread pool as the number of request grows, this will avoid the overhead of repeated thread creation.