1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scraper/util.py b/scraper/util.py
index 7b55afae..d3f4e751 100644
--- a/scraper/util.py
+++ b/scraper/util.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import csv
 import string
 import codecs
 import gspread
+from multiprocessing import Pool
 import simplejson as json
 from oauth2client.service_account import ServiceAccountCredentials
 
@@ -302,6 +303,12 @@ class AddressBook (object):
       }
     return None
 
+def parallelize(func, rows):
+  print("Fetching {} items".format(len(rows)))
+  chunksize = 3
+  with Pool(processes=len(os.sched_getaffinity(0))) as pool:
+    pool.starmap(func, rows, chunksize)
+
 def fetch_paper(s2, paper_id):
   os.makedirs('./datasets/s2/papers/{}/{}'.format(paper_id[0:2], paper_id), exist_ok=True)
   paper_fn = './datasets/s2/papers/{}/{}/paper.json'.format(paper_id[0:2], paper_id)