Demo for starlette http request in background

app.py

from starlette.applications import Starlette
from starlette.responses import JSONResponse
from starlette.background import BackgroundTask
import uvicorn
import asyncio
import aiohttp

import requests

app = Starlette()
@app.route('/a', methods=['GET'])
async def signup(request):
    #data = await request.json()
    url = 'https://api.github.com/events'
    task = BackgroundTask(get_async, site=url)
    message = {'status': 'ok'}
    return JSONResponse(message, background=task)

async def get_async(site):
    async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
        async with session.get(site) as resp:
            print(resp)
            data = await resp.text()
    print(data)
    print('done')

@app.route('/r', methods=['GET'])
async def signup(request):
    #data = await request.json()
    url = 'https://api.github.com/events'
    task = BackgroundTask(get_request, site=url)
    message = {'status': 'ok'}
    return JSONResponse(message, background=task)

async def get_request(site):
    r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/events')
    data = r.text
    print(data)
    print('done')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    uvicorn.run(app, host='0.0.0.0', port=8000)