FireRequests 🔥

FireRequests is a high-performance, asynchronous HTTP client library for Python, engineered to accelerate your file transfers. By harnessing advanced concepts like semaphores, exponential backoff with jitter, concurrency, and fault tolerance, FireRequests can achieve up to a 10x real-world speedup in file downloads and uploads compared to traditional synchronous methods and enables scalable, parallelized LLM interactions with providers like OpenAI and Google.

Features 🚀

Asynchronous I/O: Non-blocking network and file operations using asyncio, aiohttp, and aiofiles, boosting throughput for I/O-bound tasks.
Concurrent Transfers: Uses asyncio.Semaphore to limit simultaneous tasks, optimizing performance by managing system resources effectively.
Fault Tolerance: Retries failed tasks with exponentially increasing wait times, adding random jitter to prevent network congestion.
Chunked Processing: Files are split into configurable chunks for parallel processing, significantly accelerating uploads/downloads.
Parallel LLM Calls: Efficiently handles large-scale language model requests from OpenAI and Google with configurable parallelism.
Compatibility: Supports environments like Jupyter through nest_asyncio, enabling reusable asyncio loops for both batch and interactive Jupyter use.

Installation 📦

Install FireRequests using pip:

!pip install firerequests

Quick Start 🏁

Accelerate your downloads with just a few lines of code:

Python Usage

from firerequests import FireRequests

url = "https://mirror.clarkson.edu/zorinos/isos/17/Zorin-OS-17.2-Core-64-bit.iso"

fr = FireRequests()
fr.download(url)

Command Line Interface

!fr download https://mirror.clarkson.edu/zorinos/isos/17/Zorin-OS-17.2-Core-64-bit.iso

Parameters:

urls (required): The URL to download the file from.
--filenames (optional): The name to save the downloaded file. Defaults to filename from URL.
--max_files (optional): The number of concurrent file chunks. Defaults to 10.
--chunk_size (optional): The size of each chunk in bytes. Defaults to 2 * 1024 * 1024 (2 MB).
--headers (optional): A dictionary of headers to include in the download request.
--show_progress (optional): Whether to show a progress bar. Defaults to True for single file downloads, and False for multiple files.

Real-World Speed Test 🏎️

FireRequests delivers significant performance improvements over traditional download methods. Below is the result of a real-world speed test:

Normal Download 🐌: 100%|██████████| 3.42G/3.42G [18:24<00:00, 3.10MB/s]
Downloading on 🔥: 100%|██████████| 3.42G/3.42G [02:38<00:00, 21.6MB/s]

🐌 Download Time: 1104.84 seconds
🔥 Download Time: 158.22 seconds

[!TIP] For Hugging Face Hub downloads it is recommended to use hf_transfer for maximum speed gains! For more details, please take a look at this section.

Advanced Usage ⚙️

Downloading Files

from firerequests import FireRequests

urls = ["https://example.com/file1.iso", "https://example.com/file2.iso"]
filenames = ["file1.iso", "file2.iso"]

fr = FireRequests()
fr.download(urls, filenames, max_files=10, chunk_size=2 * 1024 * 1024, headers={"Authorization": "Bearer token"}, show_progress=True)

urls: The URL or list of URLs of the file(s) to download.
filenames: The filename(s) to save the downloaded file(s). If not provided, filenames are extracted from the URLs.
max_files: The maximum number of concurrent chunk downloads. Defaults to 10.
chunk_size: The size of each chunk in bytes. Defaults to 2 * 1024 * 1024 (2 MB).
headers: A dictionary of headers to include in the download request (optional).
show_progress: Whether to show a progress bar during download. Defaults to True for a single file, and False for multiple files (optional).

Uploading Files

from firerequests import FireRequests

file_path = "largefile.iso"
parts_urls = ["https://example.com/upload_part1", "https://example.com/upload_part2", ...]

fr = FireRequests()
fr.upload(file_path, parts_urls, chunk_size=2 * 1024 * 1024, max_files=10, show_progress=True)

file_path: The local path to the file to upload.
parts_urls: A list of URLs where each part of the file will be uploaded.
chunk_size: The size of each chunk in bytes. Defaults to 2 * 1024 * 1024 (2 MB).
max_files: The maximum number of concurrent chunk uploads. Defaults to 10.
show_progress: Whether to show a progress bar during upload. Defaults to True.

Comparing Download Speed

from firerequests import FireRequests

url = "https://example.com/largefile.iso"

fr = FireRequests()
fr.compare(url)

Generating Text with LLMs

FireRequests allows you to run LLM API calls (like OpenAI or Google) in parallel batches using a decorator. This keeps the library lightweight and lets users supply their own logic for calling APIs. This approach currently doesn't work in Colab.

from firerequests import FireRequests

# Initialize FireRequests
fr = FireRequests()

# Use the decorator to define your own prompt function
@fr.op(max_reqs=2, prompts=[
    "What is AI?",
    "Explain quantum computing.",
    "What is Bitcoin?",
    "Explain neural networks."
])
def generate(system: str = "Provide concise answers.", prompt: str = ""):
    # You can use OpenAI, Google, or any other LLM API here
    from openai import OpenAI
    import os

    client = OpenAI(api_key=os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"])
    response = client.chat.completions.create(
        model="gpt-4o-mini",
        messages=[
            {"role": "system", "content": system},
            {"role": "user", "content": prompt}
        ]
    )
    return response.choices[0].message.content

# Call your decorated function
responses = generate()
print(responses)

License 📄

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.

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