How to Manage API Key Usage in Multi-Threaded Tasks with BAS

[bebetter]

Hi everyone,

I’m working on a multi-threaded tool in BrowserAutomationStudio where each thread needs to use an API key to fetch a proxy from a website. Here’s the challenge I’m facing:

I have a list of API keys, and when one thread is using an API key, that key needs to be locked so that no other thread can use it until the current thread is done and releases it.
I’m looking for the best way to implement this locking mechanism within BrowserAutomationStudio to avoid conflicts between threads.
Has anyone dealt with a similar situation or have suggestions on how to efficiently handle this in BrowserAutomationStudio? Any tips or code examples would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

[sergerdn]

@bebetter said in How to Manage API Key Usage in Multi-Threaded Tasks with BAS:

I have a list of API keys, and when one thread is using an API key, that key needs to be locked so that no other thread can use it until the current thread is done and releases it.

Hey, you can use this approach:

• Create a resource in BAS with API keys.
• Set the resource to use only one key per thread.

That's all.

[bebetter]

@sergerdn Thanks for your reply. Can we return the API key back to the resource after finishing a thread? So new thread can get that key to use later

[sergerdn]

@bebetter said in How to Manage API Key Usage in Multi-Threaded Tasks with BAS:

Can we return the API key back to the resource after finishing a thread?

You don't need it. Just set the usage count of the resource when you create it.