A Python client for SSE event sources that seamlessly integrates with
urllib3 and requests.
$ pip install sseclient-py
import sseclient
def with_urllib3(url):
"""Get a streaming response for the given event feed using urllib3."""
import urllib3
http = urllib3.PoolManager()
res = http.request('GET', url, preload_content=False)
yield from sseclient.SSEClient(res).events()
def with_requests(url):
"""Get a streaming response for the given event feed using requests."""
import requests
res = requests.get(url, stream=True)
yield from sseclient.SSEClient(res).events()
def with_httpx(url):
"""Get a streaming response for the given event feed using httpx."""
import httpx
with httpx.stream('GET', url) as s:
# Note: 'yield from' is Python >= 3.3. Use for/yield instead if you
# are using an earlier version.
yield from sseclient.SSEClient(s.iter_bytes()).events()
url = 'http://domain.com/events'
for event in with_urllib3(url):
...
for event in with_requests(url):
...
for event in with_httpx(url):
...