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aiohttp
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aio-libs / aiohttp

aiohttp

Asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python

20Distinct people
20Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
16.6KGitHub stars
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What it is

Asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 8:03:49 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year20 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-12-26 16:46:00 UTC to 2026-08-28 22:08:02 UTC.

0123452014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211

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I've seen a lot of debate over this, but I find greenthreads so much simpler to work with and reason about, on top of keeping my code clean and completely interoperable with my synchronous code. This is off-topic from the current JavaScript discussion, but even though Python introduced "first-class" async support a while ago, I still exclusively use gevent [1] for all of my concurrency needs. It provides full greenthread support for Python. It's extremely performant on top of being simple and clean to integrate. In contrast, Python's asyncio and async/await feels needlessly verbose and tortuous, often with full rewrites or replacements of libraries required to actually take advantage of the features (e.g. https://github.com/requests/requests vs. https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp). With gevent, I can just put whatever code I want into a
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greenthread and get instant asynchronicity (excluding hiccups with a few 3rd party libraries that have network I/O in native extensions, which is rare). The one downside is it achieves its magic with standard library monkeypatching, which is pretty hideous, but it's done very seamlessly. Developers are able to write the exact same code with or without monkeypatching and not worry about what it's doing. I've never encountered an issue with the monkeypatching when using any standard or 3rd party library. [1] http://www.gevent.org/
In The security model of WebAssembly
> Given some historical check-in, it is quite challenging in Git to find out what came next. It can be done, but it is sufficiently difficult and slow that nobody ever does it. On the command line: git for-each-ref --contains <commit, branch, etc.> Lists all refs (branches, tags) that contain the passed argument. I'd be curious to know the author's need for this. I've used something similar on GitHub to determine when a given commit, typically a bugfix, is released. > There is no button in GitHub that shows the descendents of a check-in. There is: go to the commit's URL (https://github.com/$ORG/$PROJECT/commit/$COMMIT) and below the subject & body of the commit, but above the author/commit time, there's a section that will have all branches, tags, and pull requests that the commit is a part of. For example: https://github.com/aio-lib
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s/aiohttp/commit/d7f0511ead6d05cf6... That commit is part of the "master" branch, and the "v3.1.2" tag.¹ ¹Note that more tags will likely appear in the future, if you're reading this comment some time from when I'm writing it.
In Why SQLite Does Not Use Git

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