Request-bomb

HTTP client that uses multiprocessing and aiohttp for making requests

Requirements

• aiohttp: install with pip install aiohttp==0.15.3

Usage

From shell:

python3 client.py <url> <number_of_requests> [options]

Options:

--concurrency: number of parallel processes that makes requests. Default is 1
--method: HTTP method for making the request. Default is GET
--headers: list of request headers in the form: "Type: value"
--data: body of the request
--return_response: include this option if you want response code and body

Example:

python3 client.py "http:\\api.myapp.com\users" 50 --concurrency 2 --method POST
    --headers "Content-Type: Application/json" "Accept-Language: en-US"
    --data "{'firstName':'John', 'lastName':Smith'}" --return_response

As an external module:

Use the multi_async_requests function:

multi_async_requests(concurrency, num_req, method, url,
                     return_response=False, **req_kwargs)

Args:
  - concurrency: number of processes that will be used
  - num_req: number of requests to make for every process
  - method: string indicating method for the request('GET','POST',...)
  - url: complete url for the request
  - req_kwargs: kwargs for aiohttp.request method
  - return_response: specify if function must return responses content

Returns:
  If return_response is True returns a list of tuple:
    (response status code, response body)

Example:

from client import multi_async_requests

multi_async_requests(
    4, 50, 'POST', 'http:\\api.myapp.com\users',
    headers={'Content-Type': 'Application/json', 'Accept-Language': 'en-US'},
    data={'firstName': 'John', 'lastName': 'Smith'})