DEV Community: Ebram Shehata

Abstract API Python SDK

Ebram Shehata — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 00:14:56 +0000

I'm excited :) to share about my open source Python library I created to help with using AbstractAPI services.
What can you do with the library? It supports using all current AbstractAPI services:

Email validation
Phone number validation
IP geolocation
Lookup holidays of a country on a specific date or date range.
VAT validation/calculation/categories
IBAN validation
Exchange Rates live/conversion/historical rates
Lookup company data using only its domain
Timezone current/conversion
Avatars generation
Website screenshot
Website scrape
Image processing

It supports Python >= 3.9 and it is tested on all environments from 3.9 up to 3.12. Tests are run automatically on all supported Python versions by a CI workflow.

Check it and maybe give a star? :)
Repo: https://github.com/ebram96/AbstractAPI-Python-SDK
Doc: https://abstractapi-python-sdk.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Package: https://pypi.org/project/abstract-api/

Contributions are very welcome.

Checking Whether a Celery Task is Already Running

Ebram Shehata — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 01:58:00 +0000

Ever tried to check whether a Celery task is already running?
Here is the piece of code I created for checking whether a task is running by its name.

from celery import current_app


class CeleryHelper:
    """Contains helper functionalities to be used while interacting with Celery."""
    @staticmethod
    def is_being_executed(task_name: str) -> bool:
        """Returns whether the task with given task_name is already being executed.

        Args:
            task_name: Name of the task to check if it is running currently.
        Returns: A boolean indicating whether the task with the given task name is
            running currently.
        """
        active_tasks = current_app.control.inspect().active()
        for worker, running_tasks in active_tasks.items():
            for task in running_tasks:
                if task["name"] == task_name:
                    return True

        return False

I searchedd for that a while ago and I couldn't really find a direct way to do that in a Django project but the above code is tested and works in Django-based projects.