On 26/12/2018 19:04, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 12/26/2018 10:35 AM, Simon Connah wrote:
Hi,
I want to build a simple web crawler. I know how I am going to do it
but I have one problem.
Obviously I don't want to negatively impact any of the websites that I
am crawling so I want to implement some form of rate limiting of HTTP
requests to specific domain names.
What I'd like is some form of timer which calls a piece of code say
every 5 seconds or something and that code is what goes off and crawls
the website.
I'm just not sure on the best way to call code based on a timer.
Could anyone offer some advice on the best way to do this? It will be
running on Linux and using the python-daemon library to run it as a
service and will be using at least Python 3.6.
You can use asyncio to make repeated non-blocking requests to a web site
at timed intervals and to work with multiple websites at once. You can
do the same with tkinter except that requests would block until a
response unless you implemented your own polling.
Thank you. I'll look into asynio.
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