Server Side Events (SSE) client for Python

A Python client for SSE event sources that seamlessly integrates with urllib3 and requests.

Installation

$ pip install sseclient-py

Usage

import pprint
import urllib3
import sseclient

http = urllib3.PoolManager()
response = http.request('GET', 'http://domain.com/events',
                        preload_content=False)
client = sseclient.SSEClient(response)
for event in client.events():
    pprint.pprint(json.loads(event.data))

Resources

• http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-eventsource-20091029/
• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sseclient-py/