text: asks¶
  Contents:¶
  - asks - An overview of the functions and kw/argumetns.
  - asks - A Look at Sessions
  - asks - The Response Object
  - asks - Useful idioms and tricks.
  What is asks?¶
  asks is an async http lib that can best be described as an effort to bring the same level of usable abstraction that requests offers synchronous python, to asynchronous python programming. Ideal for api interactions, webscraping etc.
  It is important to note that the code examples in this documentation are to showcase asks, and not curio. In real code, it would be benificial to use things like curio’s taskgroups and other neat tools to manage your requests. Here’s a link to curio’s docs for refrence:
  (The most useful thing to know when dealing with asks is a BoundedSemaphore, for which I’ve written an example with asks )
  Installation:¶
  asks requires Python 3.6 .
  The easiest way to install asks is to pip it:
  pip install asks
  asks was built for use with Curio. Internally asks uses the excellent h11.
  A dirty little example:¶
  Here’s how to grab a single request and print it’s content:
  # single_get.py import asks import curio async def grabber(url): r = await asks.get(url) print(r.content) curio.run(grabber('')) # Results in: # b'<!doctype html>\n<html>\n<head>\n <title>Example Domain</title>\n\n
  Making one request in an async program is a little weird, but not without its use. This sort of basic
  asks.get() would slot in quite nicely in a greater program that makes some calls here and there.
  A far finer example:¶
  Here’s an example of making 1000 calls to an api and storing the results in a list. We’ll use the
  HSession here because all of our requests are to the same top level domain!:
  # many_get.py # make a whole pile of api calls and store # their response objects in a list. # Using the homogeneous-session. import asks import curio path_list = ['a', 'list', 'of', '1000', 'paths'] retrieved_responses = [] s = asks.HSession('', connections=20) async def grabber(a_path): r = await s.get(path=a_path) retrieved_responses.append(r) async def main(path_list): for path in path_list: curio.spawn(grabber(path)) curio.run(main(path_list))
  Now we’re talkin’.
  A thousand requests running async at the drop of a hat, using clean burning connection pooling to play nicely with the target server.
  Why asks?¶
  If you like async, but don’t like the spaghetti-docs furture-laden many-looped asyncio lib, you’ll probably love curio. If you wish you could marry curio and requests, you’ll probably love asks.
  Nice libs like aiohttp suffer the side effect of uglyness due to being specifically for asyncio. Inspired by requests and curio, I wanted to take that lovely ultra abstraction and apply it to an async http lib to eleviate some of the pain in dealing with async http.
  Features¶
  asks packs most if not all of the features requests does. The usual
  .json() ing of responses and such. You can take a more in depth look here.
  However, because asks is aimed at crunching large piles of requests it takes a different approach to sessions. Sessions in asks are the main focus. More detail can be found here
  About¶
  asks was created by Mark Jameson
  Shoutout to the fine folks of 8banana and co.