Managing Multiple API Integrations Key Management

[amdd252]

The APIManager class is designed to handle multiple API keys

Key Discussion Points
1. API Key Rotation Mechanism
The APIManager class implements a simple yet effective API key rotation mechanism:
rotate_key Method: This method shifts the active API key in a round-robin fashion. It ensures that if one API key becomes invalid or hits its usage quota, the next key is automatically activated.
Potential Improvements: What are your thoughts on enhancing this rotation system to support more intelligent rotation, such as monitoring key usage or pausing keys temporarily when they hit limits instead of permanently deleting them? For example, we could add a "cooldown" period for keys that have hit rate limits.
2. Retry Logic with tenacity
The use of the tenacity library provides a robust retry mechanism:

Retry Decorator: The code attempts up to 5 retries with a 60-second wait in between, allowing time for temporary issues (e.g., API overload) to resolve.
Error Handling: The method distinguishes between various types of errors (e.g., server overload, rate limits, invalid API keys) and takes appropriate actions, such as rotating keys or waiting for some time before retrying.
Feedback: Should we consider implementing more adaptive backoff strategies (e.g., exponential backoff) instead of fixed waits for certain errors, such as rate limits or server overloads?
3. API Key Management and Deletion
The delete_key method permanently removes API keys that become invalid. While this ensures that invalid keys are no longer used, it may not handle temporary API key problems efficiently:

Key Deletion: Should the API keys be permanently removed, or would it make sense to retry using these keys after a set period, especially in cases where the error may be due to a temporary issue (e.g., a transient billing problem)?
Temporary Pausing: A temporary "cooldown" mechanism could be implemented where invalid keys are paused for a set amount of time before being re-attempted.

[AJaySi]

1. API Key Rotation Mechanism

I like this idea and there is some code around that. Presently, ALwrity has around 7-8 APIs and non-tech end users find it difficult.

Please have a look at this file: lib/ai_web_researcher/google_serp_search.py
TBD: We have serper.dev, YOU.com & serpapi. This is a good place to implement key rotation here, as the number of free APIs are less with them. In this only, serper.dev is required.

With API key rotation, we can get a lot of free calls monthly from multiple providers.

2). Retry Logic with tenacity

Nice catch, this code is old and you are right, it needs to be more robust.
This one is important for us and exponential backoff is the way to go.

3. API Key Management and Deletion

The present management is with .env file. We need to careful with APIs and when we store then, it becomes our responsibility to keep it safe and do management. When we ask user to put it in .env, its their headache. Also, API get stolen and abused. We should let the user handle their keys. BUT, this will change soon(4).

Note: Presently, we don have a UI way of changing the keys. Maybe, putting a setting options in sidebar might help.

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4). One of the features I am not getting time for is integrating social media account of users, so that they post content from ALwrity to their social platforms and websites. Wordpress integration was done and twitter is simple. Checkout Tweepy and this article for example: https://realpython.com/twitter-bot-python-tweepy/

What are your thoughts on integrating social platforms posting with ALwrity ?