Advanced Python Programming - Second Edition

Chapter 9: Concurrent Web Requests

This chapter will focus on concurrently making web requests. Intuitively, making requests to a web page to collect information about it is independent of applying the same task to another web page. This means that concurrency, specifically threading in this case, can be a powerful tool that provides a significant speedup in this process. In this chapter, we will learn about the fundamentals of web requests and how to interact with websites using Python. We will also learn how concurrency can help us make multiple requests efficiently. Finally, we will look at several good practices regarding web requests.

Overall, this chapter serves as a practical exercise for us to become more comfortable with concurrency ...