stream-chat-go

the official Golang API client for Stream chat a service for building chat applications.

You can sign up for a Stream account at https://getstream.io/chat/get_started/.

You can use this library to access chat API endpoints server-side, for the client-side integrations (web and mobile) have a look at the Javascript, iOS and Android SDK libraries (https://getstream.io/chat/).

Installation

go get github.com/GetStream/stream-chat-go

Documentation

Official API docs

Supported features

Quickstart

package main

import ( 
    "os"
    stream "github.com/GetStream/stream-chat-go"
)

var APIKey = os.Getenv("STREAM_API_KEY")
var APISecret = os.Getenv("STREAM_API_SECRET")
var userID = "" // your server user id

func main() {
    client, err := stream.NewClient(APIKey, []byte(APISecret))
    // use client methods
    
    // create channel with users
    users := []string{"id1", "id2", "id3"}
    channel, err := client.CreateChannel("messaging", "channel-id" ,userID, map[string]interface{}{
    	"users": users,
    })

    // use channel methods
    msg, err := channel.SendMessage(&stream.Message{Text: "hello"}, userID)
}

Contributing