A Python client for SSE event sources that seamlessly integrates with
urllib3 and requests.
$ pip install sseclient-py
import json
import pprint
import sseclient
def with_urllib3(url):
"""Get a streaming response for the given event feed using urllib3."""
import urllib3
http = urllib3.PoolManager()
return http.request('GET', url, preload_content=False)
def with_requests(url):
"""Get a streaming response for the given event feed using requests."""
import requests
return requests.get(url, stream=True)
url = 'http://domain.com/events'
response = with_urllib3(url) # or with_requests(url)
client = sseclient.SSEClient(response)
for event in client.events():
pprint.pprint(json.loads(event.data))