Batched Requests

[blacksmithop]

Currently the Torn API does not support any sort of batched requests. This is often used when say iterating through faction members and fetching stats for each user.

It would be useful if the wrapper could add support for it.

Generic example:

import asyncio
import aiohttp
import time

async def fetch_url(session, url):
    async with session.get(url) as response:
        status = response.status
        # Use await response.json() or response.text() if you need the body
        return f"{url} returned {status}"

async def main():
    urls = [
        "https://google.com",
        "https://python.org",
        "https://github.com"
    ]
    
    # ClientSession handles connection pooling (reusing connections)
    async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
        tasks = [fetch_url(session, url) for url in urls]
        
        # gather() runs them in parallel
        results = await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
        
        for res in results:
            print(res)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

[cxdzc]

Hey @blacksmithop, thanks for providing the example!

I just want to make sure I understand what you’re referring to. Are you interested in TornAPIWrapper being asynchronous, so you can, for example, iterate over faction members or users in parallel?

Let me know, looking forward to your response!

[blacksmithop]

Having support for async would help with batch processing so I guess they are mutually inclusive.

[cxdzc]

Thanks for letting me know.

I’ll look into creating an async version, as multiple people have requested async support. I also know many people use the Torn API/wrapper for Discord bots, so adding async support makes sense. Alongside that, I’ll explore adding some form of batch request handling as well.

I appreciate the idea!