Celery Task for Fetching Random Facts

This code defines a Celery task that fetches a random fact from an external API. The task makes an HTTP request to retrieve data and returns the result.

Technology Stack : Celery, requests

Code Type : Celery task

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
from celery import Celery
import random
import requests

def fetch_random_fact():
    celery_app = Celery('tasks', broker='pyamqp://guest@localhost//')

    @celery_app.task
    def fetch_fact():
        url = 'https://uselessfacts.jsph.pl/random.json'
        response = requests.get(url)
        if response.status_code == 200:
            return response.json()['text']
        else:
            return 'Failed to fetch fact'

    return fetch_fact.delay()