#100DaysOfWeb in Python Transcripts
Chapter: Days 21-24: Async Flask APIs with Quart
Lecture: Your turn: Day 2 - Async program
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This wouldn't be 100 Days of Code course if you didn't write some code. So now, it's your turn. Let's go over to the Quart section of our GitHub repo
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and notice that there's a code that we wrote and then there's a your_turn section so that's where it gets interesting for you.
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We have something for you to do on day two and something for you to do on day four. So let's talk through, really quickly
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what we're going to do in the first section here. Well, the first part is to watch the videos and I'm guessing if you got this far
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well, then, you've watched the videos, awesome! So you're kind of done with day one play around with some of these ideas
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and just make sure you kind of understand what's going on in the videos. So on day two what you're going to do
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is play with a pre-existing app that we've already built. This one is called web_crawl, and it's just a terminal-based app, and what it does
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is it goes and downloads like, 20 webpages off of talkpython.fm, and just prints out the title. It's kind of not really valuable, but it's a
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really good chance to leverage async programming. So what you're going to do is you're going to create a virtual environment and activate it
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and there's a set of requirements to make this work so you got to make sure that you install those after you activate the environment.
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Then when you run it, you'll see that it does a few things it says get me the HTML, and then from the HTML
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it gets the title and then it prints out the title for episode 150, then it does it for 151 then it does it for 152.
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Well, what do you think your app is doing most of the time? It's waiting for talkpython.fm to stream that HTML back to you.
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Now that happens pretty quick on the site but there's things like latency on the internet and all sorts of stuff, so you could really
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ramp up the speed in which this happens if you leveraged async, so that's your job. What you're going to do is you're going to go to the
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get_HTML method, you'll see that in the code that's provided for you, you're going to convert that method to be async, and we're going to use
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this thing called aiohttp Client. So this lets you do, as a client, kind of like requests the requests library that lets you make
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http requests, but this one supports async so you can do async type of stuff like get a URL or read the text stream, things like that.
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So in this part, this is day two, your job is to go through and convert this thing we're calling web_crawl, up here
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convert that from a synchronous program to an asynchronous program. There's a final little trick here at the end
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that you actually have to leverage to make things truly go faster and truly happen in parallel and I'll just leave that for you to discover
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as you go through this whole project. All right, hope you have fun on this day there's a lot of sort of step-by-step instructions
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but it's not meant to be hand-holding you're supposed to explore these ideas so hopefully that balance is there.
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And most importantly, have a great time.