precache images for crowdsourcing app

cacher.py

import sys
import requests
import multiprocessing

URL = 'http://forma-cs-validation.elasticbeanstalk.com/api/alerts/next/cache'


def f(a):
    try:
        r = requests.get(URL)
        print r
        try:
            x = r.json()['message']
            if 'Error: No uncached alerts' in x:
                sys.exit()
        except KeyError:
            return r
    except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
        print "Connection error"
        return None


if __name__ == '__main__':
    cpus = multiprocessing.cpu_count()
    pool = multiprocessing.Pool(processes=cpus)
    pool.map(f, range(1000000))