[FIXED] How to avoid rebuilding Google api client each time you make an api request python

Issue

In my Django web application i have this function that makes a request to google's youtube api, this function gets excuted each time a user submits a form Here is the code:

import googleapiclient.discovery

def myFunc():
      youtube = googleapiclient.discovery.build(
        api_service_name, api_version, developerKey=api_key)

    request = youtube.search().list(
        part="id",
        maxResults=25,
        q="surfing",
    )
    youtube_api_response = request.execute()

    for object in youtube_api_response["items"]:
      # my logic here

Now building the api client using

googleapiclient.discovery.build(api_service_name, api_version, developerKey=api_key)

So building this way each time a user submits a form will require a lot of time and slow down the website. Is there a way to store this build somehow or reuse the same one each time without the need of building again and again to improve the performance.

Solution

My suggestion would be to have a single instance of your client. You could then pass that client to the function you want to use. Even better, wrap your client in a class of its own and simply just call functions from that. Such as:

import googleapiclient.discovery

class GoogleClient:
    def __init__(self):
        self.api_service_name = "name"
        self.api_key = "key"
        self.api_version = "version"
        self.client = googleapiclient.discovery.build(
        self.api_service_name, self.api_version, developerKey=self.api_key)
        
    def search(self, q):
        request = self.client.search().list(
            part="id",
            maxResults=25,
            q=q,
        )
        youtube_api_response = request.execute()

        for object in youtube_api_response["items"]:
            print("do whatever")
            

client = GoogleClient()
client.search("query")

Answered By - Brady R