Switched json parser to improve encoding/decoding times.

requirements.txt

@@ -1,12 +1,7 @@
-Flask==0.10.1
-Flask-Login==0.3.1
-Flask-SQLAlchemy==2.0
-Flask-WTF==0.12
-itsdangerous==0.24
-Jinja2==2.8
-MarkupSafe==0.23
-requests==2.8.0
-SQLAlchemy==1.0.8
-Werkzeug==0.10.4
-wheel==0.24.0
-WTForms==2.0.2
+requests
+wtforms
+flask
+flask-login
+flask-sqlalchemy
+flask-wtf
+ujson

wanikaniburned.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import json
+import ujson as json
 import re
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ class User(db.Model):
         self.username = data['user_information']['username']
         self.gravatar = data['user_information']['gravatar']
         if data.get('requested_information'):
-            self.radicals = json.dumps(data['requested_information'])
+            self.radicals = json.dumps(data['requested_information'], ensure_ascii=False)
 
     def parse_kanji(self):
         response = requests.get("https://www.wanikani.com/api/user/" + self.api_key + "/kanji/")
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ class User(db.Model):
         if data.get('error'):
             raise ValueError(data['error']['message'])
         if data.get('requested_information'):
-            self.kanji = json.dumps(data['requested_information'])
+            self.kanji = json.dumps(data['requested_information'], ensure_ascii=False)
 
     def parse_vocabulary(self):
         response = requests.get("https://www.wanikani.com/api/user/" + self.api_key + "/vocabulary/")
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ class User(db.Model):
         if data.get('error'):
             raise ValueError(data['error']['message'])
         if data.get('requested_information'):
-            self.vocabulary = json.dumps(data['requested_information']['general'])
+            self.vocabulary = json.dumps(data['requested_information']['general'], ensure_ascii=False)
 
     def update_all(self):
         if (datetime.utcnow() - self.last_updated) > timedelta(hours=1):