pykafka

pykafka allows you to produce messages to the Kafka distributed publish/subscribe messaging service.

Requirements

You need to have access to your Kafka instance and be able to connect through TCP. You can obtain a copy and instructions on how to setup kafka at https://github.com/kafka-dev/kafka

Installation

easy_install -f 'https://github.com/DataDog/pykafka/tarball/2.1.0#egg=pykafka-2.1.0' pykafka

Usage

Sending a simple message

import kafka
kafka = kafka.Kafka(host='localhost')
kafka.produce("test-topic", "Hello World")

Sending a sequence of messages

import kafka
kafka = kafka.Kafka(host='localhost')
kafka.produce("test-topic", ["Hello", "World"])

Consuming messages one by one

import kafka
kafka = kafka.Kafka(host='localhost')
for offset, message in kafka.fetch("test-topic", offset=0):
    print message

Nonblocking Tornado client support

import time
import tornado.ioloop
import tornado.web

from kafka import LATEST_OFFSET
from kafka.nonblocking import KafkaTornado

class MainHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
    def initialize(self, kafka, topic):
        self.kafka = kafka
        self.topic = topic

    def post(self):
        data = self.get_argument('data')
        self.kafka.produce(self.topic, data)
    
    @tornado.web.asynchronous
    def get(self):
        kafka.offsets(self.topic, LATEST_OFFSET, max_offsets=2, 
            callback=self._on_offset)

    def _on_offset(self, offsets):
        offset = offsets[-1] # Get the second to latest offset
        kafka.fetch(self.topic, offset, callback=self._on_fetch)

    def _on_fetch(self, messages):
        for offset, message in messages:
            self.write("{0}: {1}".format(offset, message))
        self.finish()


kafka = KafkaTornado()

application = tornado.web.Application([
    (r"/", MainHandler, {
        'kafka': kafka,
        'topic': 'hello-world'
    }),
])

if __name__ == "__main__":
    parse_command_line()
    application.listen(8888)
    tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()

Contact:

Please use the GitHub issues: https://github.com/datadog/pykafka/issues

• Forked from https://github.com/dsully/pykafka which was inspired by Alejandro Crosa's kafka-rb: https://github.com/acrosa/kafka-rb