A small test on requests with and without multiprocessing.

plain_requests.py

import requests
import time

url = 'https://xkcd.com/'

url_data = []

start = time.time()

for i in range(1821, 1831):
    url_data.append(requests.get(url + str(i)))

print("time taken:", (time.time() - start))

"""
Machine Information:
Sockets:            1
Core(s) per socket: 2
CPU(s):             4
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Output:
time taken: 14.421966791152954
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"""

with_mp_requests.py

import time
from multiprocessing import Pool


def retrieve_data(integer):
    import requests

    url = 'https://xkcd.com/'
    data = requests.get(url + str(integer))
    return data


if __name__ == "__main__":
    start = time.time()

    pool = Pool()

    result = pool.map(retrieve_data, range(1821, 1831))

    pool.close()
    pool.join()

    print("time taken:", (time.time() - start))

"""
Machine Information:
Sockets:            1
Core(s) per socket: 2
CPU(s):             4
******************************
Output:
time taken: 4.337875127792358
******************************
"""