What is the fastest way to send 100,000 HTTP requests in Python?

Question

I am opening a file which has 100,000 URL\'s. I need to send an HTTP request to each URL and print the status code. I am using Python 2.6, and so far looked at the many con

Answer 1

Use grequests , it's a combination of requests + Gevent module .

GRequests allows you to use Requests with Gevent to make asyncronous HTTP Requests easily.

Usage is simple:

import grequests

urls = [
   'http://www.heroku.com',
   'http://tablib.org',
   'http://httpbin.org',
   'http://python-requests.org',
   'http://kennethreitz.com'
]

Create a set of unsent Requests:

>>> rs = (grequests.get(u) for u in urls)

Send them all at the same time:

>>> grequests.map(rs)
[, , , , ]