I'm sure many of you have experienced the frustration of publishing a new blog post only to find it's not immediately visible in search engine results. I recently learned that search engines like Bing and Yandex offer a way to quickly notify them of new posts via the IndexNow API. So, I decided to integrate this feature into my blog.
Attempts and Pitfalls
Initially, I created helper functions in services/indexnow_service.py to call the IndexNow API when a post was published. I structured the code to use asyncio.create_task to send a ping asynchronously whenever the post status changed to 'published' in the BlogRepository.update_status method.
# services/indexnow_service.py (partial)
import asyncio
