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cache_requests
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**Simple. Powerful. Persistent LRU caching for the requests library.**
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Features
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- Documentation: https://cache_requests.readthedocs.org
- Open Source: https://github.com/bionikspoon/cache_requests
- Python version agnostic: tested against Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 and Pypy
- MIT license
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- Drop in decorator for the requests library.
- Automatic timer based expiration on stored items (optional).
- Backed by yahoo's powerful ``redislite``.
- Scalable with redis. Optionally accepts a ``redis`` connection.
- Exposes the powerful underlying ``Memoize`` decorator to decorate any function.
- Tested with high coverage.
- Lightweight. Simple logic.
- Lightning fast.
..
- Jump start your development cycle.
- Collect and reuse entire response objects.
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Installation
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At the command line either via easy_install or pip
.. code-block:: shell
$ pip install cache_requests
.. code-block:: shell
$ easy_install cache_requests
Or, if you have virtualenvwrapper installed
.. code-block:: shell
$ mkvirtualenv cache_requests
$ pip install cache_requests
**Uninstall**
.. code-block:: shell
$ pip uninstall cache_requests
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Usage
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To use cache_requests in a project
.. code-block:: python
import cache_requests
Quick Start
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To use ``cache_requests`` in a project
.. code-block:: python
>>> from cache_requests import Session()
requests = Session()
# from python-requests.org
>>> r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/user', auth=('user', 'pass'))
>>> r.status_code
200
>>> r.headers['content-type']
'application/json; charset=utf8'
>>> r.encoding
'utf-8'
>>> r.text
u'{"type":"User"...'
>>> r.json()
{u'private_gists': 419, u'total_private_repos': 77, ...}
Config Options
--------------
Decorated Methods
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
``method.ex``
sets the default expiration (seconds) for new cache entries.
``method.redis``
creates the connection to the ``redis`` or ``redislite`` database. By default this is a ``redislite`` connection. However, a redis connection can be dropped in for easy scalability.
:mod:`cache_requests.Session`
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- ``ex`` is shared between request methods. They can be accessed by ``Session.cache.ex`` or ``Session.get.ex``, where ``get`` is the ``requests.get`` method
- By default requests that return and error will not be cached. This can be overridden by overriding the ``Session.cache.set_cache_cb`` to return ``False``. The callback takes the response object as an argument
.. code-block:: python
from cache_requests import Session
requests = Session()
requests.cache.set_cache_db = lambda _:False
- By default only autonomous methods are cached (``get``, ``head``, ``options``). Each method can be setup to be cached using the ``Session.cache`` config option.
These methods are accessed through the Session objects ``Session.cache.[method name]``.
They can be overridden with the ``Session.cache.all`` setting.
For example
.. code-block:: python
from cache_requests import Session
requests = Session()
requests.cache.delete = True
# cached, only called once.
requests.delete('http://google.com')
requests.delete('http://google.com')
requests.cache.delete = True
# not cached, called twice.
requests.delete('http://google.com')
requests.delete('http://google.com')
# cache ALL methods
requests.cache.all = True
# don't cache any methods
requests.cache.all = False
# Use individual method cache options.
requests.cache.all = None
Default settings
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Method Cached
=========== ========
``get`` ``True``
``head`` ``True``
``options`` ``True``
``post`` ``False``
``put`` ``False``
``patch`` ``False``
``delete`` ``False``
``all`` ``None``
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Function Level Config
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cache Busting
Use keyword ``bust_cache=True`` in a memoized function to force reevaluation.
Conditionally Set Cache
Use keyword ``set_cache`` to provide a callback. The callback takes the results of function as an argument and must return a ``bool``. Alternatively, ``True`` and ``False`` can be used.
Use Case Scenarios
------------------
Development: 3rd Party APIs
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Scenario:
Working on a project that uses a 3rd party API or service.
Things you want:
* A cache that persists between sessions and is lightning fast.
* Ability to rapidly explore the API and it's parameters.
* Ability to inspect and debug response content.
* Ability to focus on progress.
* Perfect transition to a production environment.
Things you don't want:
* Dependency on network and server stability for development.
* Spamming the API. Especially APIs with limits.
* Responses that change in non-meaningful ways.
* Burning energy with copypasta or fake data to run piece of your program.
* Slow. Responses.
Make a request one time. Cache the results for the rest of your work session.
.. code-block:: python
import os
if os.environ.get('ENV') == 'DEVELOP':
from cache_requests import Session
request = Session(ex=60 * 60 ) # Set expiration, 60 min
else:
import requests
# strange, complicated request you might make
headers = {"accept-encoding": "gzip, deflate, sdch", "accept-language": "en-US,en;q=0.8"}
payload = dict(sourceid="chrome-instant", ion="1", espv="2", ie="UTF-8", client="ubuntu",
q="hash%20a%20dictionary%20python")
response = requests.get('http://google.com/search', headers=headers, params=payload)
# spam to prove a point
response = requests.get('http://google.com/search', headers=headers, params=payload)
response = requests.get('http://google.com/search', headers=headers, params=payload)
response = requests.get('http://google.com/search', headers=headers, params=payload)
response = requests.get('http://google.com/search', headers=headers, params=payload)
response = requests.get('http://google.com/search', headers=headers, params=payload)
response = requests.get('http://google.com/search', headers=headers, params=payload)
response = requests.get('http://google.com/search', headers=headers, params=payload)
# tweak your query, we're exploring here
payload = dict(sourceid="chrome-instant", ion="1", espv="2", ie="UTF-8", client="ubuntu",
q="hash%20a%20dictionary%20python2")
# do you see what changed? the caching tool did.
response = requests.get('http://google.com/search', headers=headers, params=payload)
response = requests.get('http://google.com/search', headers=headers, params=payload)
response = requests.get('http://google.com/search', headers=headers, params=payload)
Production: Web Scraping
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Automatically expire old content.
* How often? After a day? A week? A Month? etc. 100% of this logic is built in with the ``Session.cache.ex`` setting.
* Effectively it can manage all of the time-based rotation.
* Perfect if you theres more data then what your API caps allow.
One line of code to use a ``redis`` full database.
* Try ``redislite``; it can handle quite a bit. The ``redislite`` api used by this module is 1:1 with the redis package. Just replace the connection parameter/config value.
* ``redis`` is a drop in:
.. code-block:: python
connection = redis.StrictRedis(host='localhost', port=6379, db=0)
requests = Session(connection=connection)
* Everything else just works. There's no magic required.
.. code-block:: python
from cache_requests import Session
connection = redis.StrictRedis(host='localhost', port=6379, db=0)
ex = 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 # 1 week
requests = Session(ex=ex, connection=connection)
for i in range(1000)
payload = dict(q=i)
response = requests.get('http://google.com/search', params=payload)
print(response.text)
Usage: memoize
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. code-block:: python
from cache_requests import Memoize
@Memoize(ex=15 * 60) # 15 min, default, 60 min
def amazing_but_expensive_function(*args, **kwargs)
print("You're going to like this")
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Credits
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Tools used in rendering this package:
* Cookiecutter_
* `bionikspoon/cookiecutter-pypackage`_ forked from `audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage`_
.. _Cookiecutter: https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter
.. _`bionikspoon/cookiecutter-pypackage`: https://github.com/bionikspoon/cookiecutter-pypackage
.. _`audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage`: https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage
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History
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Next Release
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- Stay tuned.
4.0.0 (2015-12-25)
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- Fix: Use MD5 for hash to avoid PYTHONHASHSEED issue.
- Fix: Give default dbfilename a more unique name, based on caller.
- BREAKING:Move ``Session.ex`` and ``Session.connection`` to ``Session.cache`` config object.
- Updated examples. New example demonstrates Memoize decorator.
- Updated requirements.
3.0.0 (2015-12-22)
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- Feature: Cache busting! Use keyword argument ``bust_cache=True`` to force reevaluation.
- Feature: Session automatically skips caching error responses.
- Feature: Callback argument to decide if results should be cached.
- Feature: Decorated Session methods share a centralized configuration per session.
- BREAKING: Remove global config, in favor component level config. Reasoning: Global config adds way too much complexity and adds too little value. (Everything needs to lazy load the config at the last moment)
- Fix: Unique cache per function in shared db.
- Fix: Tweaks to keep the classes sub classable.
- Fix: Cleaned up tests.
- Updated requirements.
2.0.0 (2015-12-12)
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- API completely rewritten
- New API extends ``requests`` internals as opposed to monkeypatching.
- Entire package is redesigned to be more maintainable, more modular, and more usable.
- Dependencies are pinned.
- Tests are expanded.
- PY26 and PY32 support is dropped, because of dependency constraints.
- PY35 support is added.
- Docs are rewritten.
- Move towards idiomatic code.
- 2.0.6 Fix broken coverage, broken rst render.
1.0.0 (2015-04-23)
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- First real release.
- Feature/ Unit test suite, very high coverage.
- Feature/ ``redislite`` integration.
- Feature/ Documentation. https://cache-requests.readthedocs.org.
- Feature/ Exposed the beefed up ``Memoize`` decorator.
- Feature/ Upgraded compatibility to:
- PY26
- PY27
- PY33
- PY34
- PYPY
- Added examples and case studies.
0.1.0 (2015-04-19)
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- First release on PyPI.