Multithreaded HTTP Requests with Python

This script performs multithreaded HTTP requests using Python's requests library and ThreadPoolExecutor. The code allows you to send multiple HTTP requests concurrently for a specified duration.

Features

• Sends concurrent HTTP requests to a specified URL.
• Supports multiple request methods (GET, POST, etc.).
• Allows customizing headers, cookies, data, and URL parameters.
• The number of threads and the duration of the requests can be controlled.
• Uses ThreadPoolExecutor to handle multithreading efficiently.

Requirements

• Python 3.x
• requests library

To install the requests library, run:

pip install requests

Usage

Function: make_request

This function sends a single HTTP request to a given URL with the specified parameters.

• Arguments:

  • url (str): The URL to send the request to.
  • method (str): The HTTP method to use (default: GET).
  • headers (dict): Optional HTTP headers to include.
  • cookies (dict): Optional cookies to include.
  • data (dict): Optional data for POST requests.
  • params (dict): Optional URL parameters.

• Example: make_request("https://example.com", method='POST', data={"key": "value"})

Function: start_requests

This function sends multiple HTTP requests concurrently for a specified duration.

• Arguments:

  • url (str): The URL to send the requests to.
  • method (str): The HTTP method to use (default: GET).
  • headers (dict): Optional HTTP headers to include.
  • cookies (dict): Optional cookies to include.
  • data (dict): Optional data for POST requests.
  • params (dict): Optional URL parameters.
  • num_threads (int): The number of threads to use (default: 5).
  • duration (int): The duration in seconds to send requests (default: 10 seconds).

• Example: url = "https://example.com/api" start_requests(url, method='GET', num_threads=5, duration=15)

How It Works

1. The start_requests function uses ThreadPoolExecutor to manage the specified number of threads.
2. Each thread sends an HTTP request to the given URL.
3. The process continues until the specified duration ends.
4. The make_request function handles sending the requests and printing the response status codes.

Example Usage

url = "https://example.com/api" start_requests(url, num_threads=5, duration=15) # Sends requests for 15 seconds using 5 threads.

Customization

• You can modify the method, headers, cookies, data, or params in the function calls to fit your use case.
• For POST requests, pass data through the data argument.

start_requests("https://example.com/post", method='POST', data={'key': 'value'}, num_threads=10, duration=20)

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.