"""A simple web server that accepts POSTS containing a list of feed urls, and returns the titles of those feeds. """ import eventlet feedparser = eventlet.import_patched('feedparser') # the pool provides a safety limit on our concurrency pool = eventlet.GreenPool() def fetch_title(url): d = feedparser.parse(url) return d.feed.get('title', '') def app(environ, start_response): if environ['REQUEST_METHOD'] != 'POST': start_response('403 Forbidden', []) return [] # the pile collects the result of a concurrent operation -- in this case, # the collection of feed titles pile = eventlet.GreenPile(pool) for line in environ['wsgi.input'].readlines(): url = line.strip() if url: pile.spawn(fetch_title, url) # since the pile is an iterator over the results, # you can use it in all sorts of great Pythonic ways titles = '\n'.join(pile) start_response('200 OK', [('Content-type', 'text/plain')]) return [titles] if __name__ == '__main__': from eventlet import wsgi wsgi.server(eventlet.listen(('localhost', 9010)), app)