Async / Await usage with asyncio to retrieve urls in parallel

[mlieqo]

1.) Yes it's possible, you can just call the asyncio.run in getResults but you will have to move the asyncio.gather to a new coroutine

2.) Let's say your new getResult function will look something like this:

async def get_url_result(url):
    response = await asynchronous_get_request(url)  # not an actual working code
    return response

then response will be a some kind of Response object which will have url attribute and the actual response that you can then use to update your dictionary with

3.) requests is a blocking library, which would make the whole point of using asyncio in your case pointless. There is actually no "thread split", asyncio runs only in one thread and it runs concurrently and not in parallel. What happens when you use non-blocking call in this case, is that when a request is made, while it waits for response, it gives back control to the event loop, so other coroutines that are scheduled on it, can be run. There is a nice explanation on real python -> https://realpython.com/async-io-python/

Regarding an example for aiohttp, there is a really simple one in the link I sent you:

async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
    async with session.get('http://httpbin.org/get') as resp:
        print(resp.status)
        print(await resp.text())

It would be good if you'll try to do it on your own, post your experiments and I'll help