khabdrick/rest-api-python

What is this Repository about?

This repo contains example code of fetching test data from Lmbdatest API. The file tests/fetch-build.py contains code for fetching test data from Lambdatest API from a certain date range.tests/fetch-build-async.py shows how you can fetch data from an API synchronously using aiohttp.

Running the code

If you already have Python installed you only need to install dotenv which we will use to get the environment variables.

pip install python-dotenv

After installations create the environment variables in .env file and populate with you LambdaTest details.

# .env
LT_USERNAME=your_username
LT_ACCESS_KEY=your_access_key

You can benchmark the code files and you will see that the async version runs faster. For benchmarking (over a certain number of runs), we will use hyperfine. Installation of hyperfine can be found in the docs. Benchmark by running the following command:

hyperfine "python3 fetch-build.py" "python3 fetch-build-async.py" --warmup=3

Result: Asyncio is 1.12 ± 0.29 seconds faster than sync execution. If we are working with more data and code the gap will be greater.