python-fastpurge

A Python client for the Akamai Fast Purge API.

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This library provides a simple asynchronous Python wrapper for the Fast Purge API. Features include:

• convenient handling of authentication
• recovery from errors
• splitting large requests into smaller pieces

Installation

Install the fastpurge package from PyPI.

pip install fastpurge

Usage Example

Assuming a valid ~/.edgerc file prepared with credentials according to Akamai's documentation:

from fastpurge import FastPurgeClient

# Omit credentials to read from ~/.edgerc
client = FastPurgeClient()

# Start purge of some URLs
purged = client.purge_by_url(['https://example.com/resource1', 'https://example.com/resource2'])

# purged is a Future, if we want to ensure purge completed
# we can block on the result:
result = purged.result()
print("Purge completed:", result)

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.