mandarons / icloudpy

iCloud web service interface library in Python
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[FEATURE] AsyncIO-based service class - ICloudPyAsync #10

Open mandarons opened 1 year ago

mandarons commented 1 year ago

Use case As an iCloud user who has several gigs of data, I want to download all of my data and keep it in sync locally faster so that I can be more productive.

Describe the solution you'd like Currently, this library performs sequential downloading of iCloud data. This is a huge performance bottleneck especially for media and documents (e.g. https://github.com/mandarons/icloud-drive-docker). Downloading from iCloud servers is inherently IO-bound. Using AsyncIO should significantly boost download performance.

Describe alternatives you've considered Alternative can be multithreading. However, it is not optimal as IO-bound operations will continue to throttle all threads.

Additional context Some relevant info: https://medium.com/radix-ai-blog/performant-http-with-aiohttp-in-python-3-756580e54eff