Timed API Requests

Make timed API calls with accuracy down to the second. Send multiple requests at the same second.

timed_requests.py makes a GET request to ifconfig.co (or any API_URL) at user-specified timestamps. Requests are sent at the same time for identical timestamps.

timed_requests.py can take 2 different arguments for testing:

1. --str times_str

where 'times_str' is a string of request times separated by commas. Eg. "09:15:25,11:58:23,13:45:09,13:45:09,13:45:09".

2. --test n_tests range_seconds

where 'n_tests' = number of test times to randomly generate, and 'range_seconds' = range of seconds after execution in which to generate times (>3 by default to allow time to generate tests). Eg. '--test 8 20' sends 8 requests at random times within 20 seconds of execution. Note: ifconfig.co will give code 429 (too many requests) with >6 requests in one second.

For help, execute:

`python3 timed_requests.py -h`

To run on user-inputted string of times:

`python3 timed_requests.py --str times_str`

To run on automatically generated test times:

`python3 timed_requests.py --test n_tests range_seconds`

For verbose logs on string times:

`python3 timed_requests.py --debug --str times_str`

For verbose logs on test times:

`python3 timed_requests.py --debug --test n_tests range_seconds`

Review logs in console.

Note also: For ease of execution, requests module (non-native) is used to bypass 403 error given to urllib request where several user credentials are required to make successful request. So you may have to run:

`pip install requests`

before executing.