NAME
Parallel::Downloader - simple downloading of multiple files at once
VERSION
version 0.120101
SYNOPSIS
use HTTP::Request::Common qw( GET POST );
use Parallel::Downloader 'async_download';
# simple example
my @requests = map GET( "
http://google.com" ), ( 1..15 );
my @responses = async_download( requests => \@requests );
# complex example
my @complex_reqs = ( ( map POST( "
http://google.com", [ type_id => $_ ] ), ( 1..60 ) ),
( map POST( "
http://yahoo.com", [ type_id => $_ ] ), ( 1..60 ) ) );
my $downloader = Parallel::Downloader->new(
requests => \@complex_reqs,
workers => 50,
conns_per_host => 12,
aehttp_args => {
timeout => 30,
on_prepare => sub {
print "download started ($AnyEvent::HTTP::ACTIVE / $AnyEvent::HTTP::MAX_PER_HOST)\n"
}
},
debug => 1,
logger => sub {
my ( $downloader, $message ) = @_;
print "downloader sez [$message->{type}]: $message->{msg}\n";
},
);
my @complex_responses = $downloader->run;
DESCRIPTION
This is not a library to build a parallel downloader on top of. It is a
downloading client build on top of AnyEvent::HTTP.
Its goal is not to be better, faster, or smaller than anything else. Its
goal is to provide the user with a single function they can call with a
bunch of HTTP requests and which gives them the responses for them with
as little fuss as possible and most importantly, without downloading
them in sequence.
It handles the busywork of grouping requests by hosts and limiting the
amount of simultaneous requests per host, separate from capping the
amount of overall connections. This allows the user to maximize their
own connection without abusing remote hosts.
Of course, there are facilities to customize the exact limits employed
and to add logging and such; but "async_download" is the premier piece
of API and should be enough for most uses.
FUNCTIONS
async_download
Can be requested to be exported, will instantiate a Parallel::Downloader
object with the given parameters, run it and return the results.
METHODS
run
Runs the downloads for the given parameters and returns an array of
array references, each containing the decoded contents, the headers and
the HTTP::Request object.
SUPPORT
Bugs / Feature Requests
Please report any bugs or feature requests through the issue tracker at
<
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Parallel-Downloader>.
You will be notified automatically of any progress on your issue.
Source Code
This is open source software. The code repository is available for
public review and contribution under the terms of the license.
<
https://github.com/wchristian/parallel-downloader>
git clone
https://github.com/wchristian/parallel-downloader.git
AUTHOR
Christian Walde <
[email protected]>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is Copyright (c) 2012 by Christian Walde.
This is free software, licensed under:
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2, December 2004