I want my script to
Open say 3 tabs
Asynchronously fetch a url(same for each tab)
Save the response
Sleep for 4 seconds
Parse through the response with regex(I tried BeautifulSoup but its too slow) and return a token
Loop through several times within the 3 tabs
My problem is with 2. I have an example script but it synchronously fetches the url. I would like to make it asynchronous.
from pyppeteer import launch
urls = ['https://www.example.com']
async def main():
browser = await launch(headless=False)
for url in urls:
page1 = await browser.newPage()
page2 = await browser.newPage()
page3 = await browser.newPage()
await page1.goto(url)
await page2.goto(url)
await page3.goto(url)
title1= await page1.title()
title2= await page2.title()
title3= await page3.title()
print(title1)
print(title2)
print(title3)
#await browser.close()
asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(main())
Also, as you can see, the code is not so concise. How do I go about making it asynchronous?
Also if it helps, I have other pyppeteer scripts which don't fit my need just in case it would be easier to convert those
import asyncio
from pyppeteer import launch
url = 'http://www.example.com'
browser = None
async def fetchUrl(url):
# Define browser as a global variable to ensure that the browser window is only created once in the entire process
global browser
if browser is None:
browser = await launch(headless=False)
page = await browser.newPage()
await page.goto(url)
#await asyncio.wait([page.waitForNavigation()])
#str = await page.content()
#print(str)
# Execute this function multiple times for testing
asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(fetchUrl(url))
asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(fetchUrl(url))
The script is asynchronous but it executes one event loop at a time so its as good as synchronous.
# cat test.py
import asyncio
import time
from pyppeteer import launch
WEBSITE_LIST = [
'http://envato.com',
'http://amazon.co.uk',
'http://example.com',
]
start = time.time()
async def fetch(url):
browser = await launch(headless=False, args=['--no-sandbox'])
page = await browser.newPage()
await page.goto(f'{url}', {'waitUntil': 'load'})
print(f'{url}')
await asyncio.sleep(1)
await page.close()
#await browser.close()
async def run():
tasks = []
for url in WEBSITE_LIST:
task = asyncio.ensure_future(fetch(url))
tasks.append(task)
responses = await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
future = asyncio.ensure_future(run())
loop.run_until_complete(future)
print(f'It took {time.time()-start} seconds.')
The script is asynchronous but it launches a separate browser for each url which ends up taking too many resources.
This will open each URL in a separate tab:
import asyncio
import traceback
from pyppeteer import launch
URLS = [
"http://envato.com",
"http://amazon.co.uk",
"http://example.com",
]
async def fetch(browser, url):
page = await browser.newPage()
try:
await page.goto(f"{url}", {"waitUntil": "load"})
except Exception:
traceback.print_exc()
else:
html = await page.content()
return (url, html)
finally:
await page.close()
async def main():
tasks = []
browser = await launch(headless=True, args=["--no-sandbox"])
for url in URLS:
tasks.append(asyncio.create_task(fetch(browser, url)))
for coro in asyncio.as_completed(tasks):
url, html = await coro
print(f"{url}: ({len(html)})")
await browser.close()
if __name__ == "__main__":
main = asyncio.run(main())