Caching

Speed up repeated requests by caching GET responses. Use flask-caching for production backends or a bundled simple cache for development.

Backends

Set API_CACHE_TYPE to a supported cache:

• With flask-caching installed: RedisCache, SimpleCache, etc.

• Without flask-caching: only SimpleCache (in‑memory per process).

Timeout is controlled by API_CACHE_TIMEOUT.

Example

try:
    import flask_caching
    app.config["API_CACHE_TYPE"] = "RedisCache"
    app.config["CACHE_REDIS_URL"] = "redis://localhost:6379/0"
except ModuleNotFoundError:
    app.config["API_CACHE_TYPE"] = "SimpleCache"