Lightning Talk: HTTP Caching in Python
summary
Demonstrates using requests with requests-cache to make API calls behave like a browser by honoring Cache-Control and ETag headers. Shows replacing requests.Session with a cache session that stores responses in a local SQLite backend, reusing a max-age 60s entry from the GitHub API and turning a 2‑second HTTPBin delay into an instantaneous cache hit. Uses ETag conditional requests after expiry to avoid full responses and reduce request volume.
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