aiothrottle¶

Throttling, flow controlling StreamReader for aiohttp

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Python Version

GPLv3

Requirements¶

Python >= 3.3
asyncio https://pypi.python.org/pypi/asyncio
aiohttp https://pypi.python.org/pypi/aiohttp

License¶

aiothrottle is offered under the GPL v3 license.

Documentation¶

https://aiothrottle.readthedocs.org/

Source code¶

The latest developer version is available in a github repository: https://github.com/panda73111/aiothrottle

Usage¶

import asyncio
import aiohttp
import aiothrottle

@asyncio.coroutine
def load_file(url):
    response = yield from aiohttp.request("GET", url)

    data = yield from response.read()
    with open("largefile.zip", "wb") as file:
        file.write(data)

    response.close()

# setup the rate limit to 200 KB/s
aiothrottle.limit_rate(200 * 1024)

# download a large file without blocking bandwidth
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(load_file(
    "http://example.com/largefile.zip"))

# unset the rate limit
aiothrottle.unlimit_rate()

TODO¶

Upload rate limiting class
General socket limiting class

Contents¶

aiothrottle package

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