================================== Example using the gevent Pool

Introduction

This is a Celery application containing two example tasks.

First you need to install gevent::

$ python -m pip install gevent celery pybloom-live

Before you run any of the example tasks you need to start the worker::

$ cd examples/gevent
$ celery worker -l INFO --concurrency=500 --pool=gevent

As usual you need to have RabbitMQ running, see the Celery getting started guide if you haven't installed it yet.

Tasks

tasks.urlopen

This task simply makes a request opening the URL and returns the size of the response body::

$ cd examples/gevent
$ python
>>> from tasks import urlopen
>>> urlopen.delay('https://www.google.com/').get()
9980

To open several URLs at once you can do::

$ cd examples/gevent
$ python
>>> from tasks import urlopen
>>> from celery import group
>>> result = group(urlopen.s(url)
...                     for url in LIST_OF_URLS).apply_async()
>>> for incoming_result in result.iter_native():
...     print(incoming_result)

This is a simple recursive web crawler. It will only crawl URLs for the current host name. Please see comments in the webcrawler.py file.