demonstrate how fastapi and aiohttp can work together to make the API faster

app.py

# This script is based on the article:
# https://dev.to/fuadrafid/fastapi-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-20ob
# The task is to gather three subreddit top articles and show them as the return
# If we do this in squential code, this will be much slows than the gather method used here.

from fastapi import FastAPI
import json
import asyncio
import time
import aiohttp
from aiohttp import ClientSession

app = FastAPI()

async def get_json(client: ClientSession, url: str) -> bytes:
    async with client.get(url) as response:
        assert response.status == 200
        return await response.read()

async def get_reddit_top(subreddit: str, client: ClientSession, data: dict):
    data1 = await get_json(client, 'https://www.reddit.com/r/' + subreddit + '/top.json?sort=top&t=day&limit=5')

    j = json.loads(data1.decode('utf-8'))
    subreddit_data = []
    for i in j['data']['children']:
        score = i['data']['score']
        title = i['data']['title']
        link = i['data']['url']
        print(str(score) + ': ' + title + ' (' + link + ')')
        subreddit_data.append(str(score) + ': ' + title + ' (' + link + ')')
    data[subreddit] = subreddit_data
    print('DONE:', subreddit + '\n')


@app.get("/")
async def get_reddit_data_api() -> dict:
    start_time: float = time.time()
    client: ClientSession = aiohttp.ClientSession()
    data: dict = {}

    await asyncio.gather(
        get_reddit_top('python', client, data),
        get_reddit_top('programming', client, data),
        get_reddit_top('compsci', client, data),
    )
    await client.close()

    print("Got reddit data in ---" + str(time.time() - start_time) + "seconds ---")
    return data