import asyncio import httpx from sanic import Sanic from sanic.response import json app = Sanic("Example") sem = None @app.before_server_start def init(sanic, _): global sem concurrency_per_worker = 4 sem = asyncio.Semaphore(concurrency_per_worker) async def bounded_fetch(session, url): """ Use session object to perform 'get' request on url """ async with sem: response = await session.get(url) return response.json() @app.route("/") async def test(request): """ Download and serve example JSON """ url = "https://api.github.com/repos/sanic-org/sanic" async with httpx.AsyncClient() as session: response = await bounded_fetch(session, url) return json(response) app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=8000, workers=2)