fastapi background

main.py

from fastapi import BackgroundTasks, FastAPI
import aiohttp
import asyncio

app = FastAPI()

async def send_request():
    async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
        async with session.get("https://httpdump.io/") as response:

            print("Status:", response.status)
            print("Content-type:", response.headers['content-type'])

            html = await response.text()
            print("Body:", html[:15], "...")

async def send_request_background():
    await send_request()
    await asyncio.sleep(10)
    await send_request()

@app.get("/")
async def read_root(background_tasks: BackgroundTasks):
    background_tasks.add_task(send_request_background)
    return {"Hello": "World"}


@app.get("/items/{item_id}")
async def read_item(item_id: int):
    return {"item_id": item_id}