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kurtgn
kurtgn

Reputation: 8710

requests_cache: connecting using REDIS_URL

I am trying to cache my requests using requests_cache and redis like so:

requests_cache.install_cache(
    'requests_cache', backend='redis', expire_after=600
)

and when Redis is run on localhost:6379, everything is fine and works out of the box.

However when I deploy my app to Heroku where there is a REDIS_URL environment variable, the above command fails because obviousle REDIS_URL does not point to localhost: 

Error 111 connecting to localhost:6379. Connection refused.

So the question is, how do I make it work on Heroku? the docs aren't clear on the subject.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 392

Answers (1)

prajmus
prajmus

Reputation: 3271

You have to pass an additional argument to install_cache called connection which will be of StrictRedis type. So I guess create it like that:

r = redis.StrictRedis(host='REDIS_URL', port=6379, db=0)
requests_cache.install_cache(
    'requests_cache', backend='redis', expire_after=600, connection=r
)

Or something similar, depending on how much information REDIS_URL contains (protocol, port etc.)

Upvotes: 1

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