Using async flask

app.py

@@ -21,12 +21,12 @@ def index():
 
 
 @app.route("/start")
-def start():
+async def start():
-    return get_chatgpt_html_response()
+    return await get_chatgpt_html_response()
 
 
 @app.route("/infinite")
-def topic():
+async def topic():
     topic = request.args.get("topic", None) or request.args.get("topics", None)
     if not topic:
         return redirect("/start")
@@ -37,4 +37,4 @@ def topic():
         logging.info(f"The topic is too long: {unslugified_topic}")
         return "Error! Your topic should be < 5 words"
 
-    return get_chatgpt_html_response(unslugified_topic)
+    return await get_chatgpt_html_response(unslugified_topic)

chatgpt_helper.py

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ def format_message(message: str, role: str) -> list:
     ]
 
 
-def extract_html_from_chatgpt_response(returned_string: str) -> Union[str, None]:
+async def extract_html_from_chatgpt_response(returned_string: str) -> Union[str, None]:
     """
     Extracts the HTML from the chatgpt response
 
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ def extract_html_from_chatgpt_response(returned_string: str) -> Union[str, None]
                 return possible_html
 
 
-def get_random_topic() -> str:
+async def get_random_topic() -> str:
     """
     Gets a random topic from chatgpt
 
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ def get_random_topic() -> str:
 
         if len(topics) < 5:
             logging.info(f"The topics is too short: {topics}. Retrying...")
-            return get_random_topic()
+            return await get_random_topic()
 
         logging.info(f"The topics list is: {topics}")
         topic = random.choice(topics)
@@ -95,10 +95,10 @@ def get_random_topic() -> str:
         return topic.strip().title()
 
     except openai.error.RateLimitError:
-        return get_random_topic()
+        return await get_random_topic()
 
 
-def generate_topic_image(topic: str) -> str:
+async def generate_topic_image(topic: str) -> str:
     """
     Generates an image for the topic
 
@@ -126,10 +126,10 @@ def generate_topic_image(topic: str) -> str:
         image = openai.Image.create(prompt=dalle_prompt, n=1, size="256x256")
         return image["data"][0]["url"]
     except Exception:
-        generate_topic_image(topic)
+        return generate_topic_image(topic)
 
 
-def get_chatgpt_html_response(topic: str = None, count: int = 0) -> str:
+async def get_chatgpt_html_response(topic: str = None, count: int = 0) -> str:
     """
     Gets the response from chatgpt
 
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ def get_chatgpt_html_response(topic: str = None, count: int = 0) -> str:
     count += 1
 
     if topic is None:
-        topic = get_random_topic()
+        topic = await get_random_topic()
 
     html = prompt_html_template.replace("(topic)", topic)
 
@@ -172,17 +172,20 @@ def get_chatgpt_html_response(topic: str = None, count: int = 0) -> str:
             ),
         )
     except openai.error.RateLimitError:
-        return get_chatgpt_html_response(topic, count)
+        return await get_chatgpt_html_response(topic, count)
 
     response = completion.choices[0].message.content
-    html = extract_html_from_chatgpt_response(response)
+
+    logging.info(f"The response is {response}")
+
+    html = await extract_html_from_chatgpt_response(response)
 
     if not html:
         logging.info(f"No HTML was found. The response was {response}. Retrying...")
-        return get_chatgpt_html_response(topic, count)
+        return await get_chatgpt_html_response(topic, count)
 
     pattern = r'src="([^"]*)"'
-    image = generate_topic_image(topic)
+    image = await generate_topic_image(topic)
 
     logging.info(f"The image is {image}")
 

requirements.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 aiohttp==3.8.4
 aiosignal==1.3.1
+asgiref==3.6.0
 async-timeout==4.0.2
 attrs==23.1.0
 blinker==1.6.2
@@ -12,6 +13,7 @@ filelock==3.12.0
 Flask==2.3.2
 frozenlist==1.3.3
 greenlet==2.0.2
+gunicorn==20.1.0
 html5lib==1.1
 identify==2.5.24
 idna==3.4