I know this is a noob question but I could do with some guidance please. I have a list of people for whom I want to get their contact data (B2B sales prospecting use case). I'm using the surfe api which breaks the request into two parts. 1 to tell them which person I want the contact details for and another to get the data back. here https://developers.surfe.com/public-001-create-enrichment and [https://developers.surfe.com/public-002-get-enrichment] (https://developers.surfe.com/public-002-get-enrichment) For that second request there's a 'Status' field, which initially says 'IN_PROGRESS' I assume while they're finding the information and then it goes to 'COMPLETE' when my data is ready. To manage this I've put a while loop which keeps looping until the status is no longer 'IN_PROGRESS' with a 0.5 second wait between. This seems inefficient. Is there a way I can make this better? url = "https://api.surfe.com/v1/people/enrichments/" + response.json()['id'] response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers) while response.json()['status'] == "IN_PROGRESS": response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers) time.sleep(0.5) print('waiting') print('complete') print(response.text) enter image description here Continue reading...
