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This section contains some complete examples that demonstrate the main features of requests-cache.

Articles

Some articles and blog posts that discuss requests-cache:

• PyBites: Module of the Week: requests-cache for repeated API calls
• Real Python: Caching External API Requests
• Thomas Gorham: Faster Backtesting with requests-cache
• Tim O'Hearn: Pragmatic Usage of requests-cache
• Valdir Stumm Jr: Tips for boosting your Python scripts
• Python Web Scraping (2nd Edition): Exploring requests-cache

Scripts

The following scripts can also be found in the examples/ folder on GitHub.

Basic usage (with sessions)

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:::{admonition} Example: basic_sessions.py :class: toggle

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Basic usage (with patching)

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:::{admonition} Example: basic_patching.py :class: toggle

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Cache expiration

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:::{admonition} Example: expiration.py :class: toggle

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URL patterns

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:::{admonition} Example: /url_patterns.py :class: toggle

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Multi-threaded requests

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:::{admonition} Example: threads.py :class: toggle

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Logging requests

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:::{admonition} Example: log_requests.py :class: toggle

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Cache speed test

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:::{admonition} Example: benchmark.py :class: toggle

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Converting an old cache

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:::{admonition} Example: convert_cache.py :class: toggle

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Custom request matcher

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:::{admonition} Example: custom_request_matcher.py :class: toggle

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