Async http client/server framework
Key Features
- Supports both client and server side of HTTP protocol.
- Supports both client and server Web-Sockets out-of-the-box.
- Web-server has middlewares and pluggable routing.
Getting started
Client
To retrieve something from the web:
import aiohttp
import asyncio
import async_timeout
async def fetch(session, url):
async with async_timeout.timeout(10):
async with session.get(url) as response:
return await response.text()
async def main():
async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
html = await fetch(session, 'http://python.org')
print(html)
if __name__ == '__main__':
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(main())
Server
This is simple usage example:
from aiohttp import web
async def handle(request):
name = request.match_info.get('name', "Anonymous")
text = "Hello, " + name
return web.Response(text=text)
async def wshandler(request):
ws = web.WebSocketResponse()
await ws.prepare(request)
async for msg in ws:
if msg.type == web.MsgType.text:
await ws.send_str("Hello, {}".format(msg.data))
elif msg.type == web.MsgType.binary:
await ws.send_bytes(msg.data)
elif msg.type == web.MsgType.close:
break
return ws
app = web.Application()
app.router.add_get('/echo', wshandler)
app.router.add_get('/', handle)
app.router.add_get('/{name}', handle)
web.run_app(app)
Documentation
https://aiohttp.readthedocs.io/
External links
Feel free to make a Pull Request for adding your link to these pages!
Communication channels
aio-libs google group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/aio-libs
Feel free to post your questions and ideas here.
gitter chat https://gitter.im/aio-libs/Lobby
We support Stack Overflow. Please add aiohttp tag to your question there.
Requirements
- Python >= 3.5.3
- async-timeout
- chardet
- multidict
- yarl
Optionally you may install the cChardet and aiodns libraries (highly recommended for sake of speed).
License
aiohttp
is offered under the Apache 2 license.
Keepsafe
The aiohttp community would like to thank Keepsafe (https://www.getkeepsafe.com) for it's support in the early days of the project.
Source code
The latest developer version is available in a github repository: https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp
Benchmarks
If you are interested in by efficiency, AsyncIO community maintains a list of benchmarks on the official wiki: https://github.com/python/asyncio/wiki/Benchmarks