❔ Optimising multi-threaded web API calls
Hi all. I am looking to code a wrapper to access a web API (Screenscraper.fr). The API provides both metadata for games and also images via download urls.
My question is about how best to approach this. Al I know about he web API is that it provides users with a variable number of "threads." I have no idea how this works from the Web API application side. Sadly, that means I don't know what counts as a "thread" from the application's point of view. The app is great, the documentation and support less so!
I will need to be downloading text (the metadata - in either xml or json) and the images.
Should I use a
Also, I'm going o finally try and get to grips with
Hope make sense. Sorry, I'm not a professional developer, just a hobbyist!
My question is about how best to approach this. Al I know about he web API is that it provides users with a variable number of "threads." I have no idea how this works from the Web API application side. Sadly, that means I don't know what counts as a "thread" from the application's point of view. The app is great, the documentation and support less so!
I will need to be downloading text (the metadata - in either xml or json) and the images.
Should I use a
Parallel ForEachAlso, I'm going o finally try and get to grips with
HttpClientHttpClientHttpClientsHope make sense. Sorry, I'm not a professional developer, just a hobbyist!
