stream-chat-python

the official Python 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

pip install stream-chat

Documentation

Official API docs

How to build a chat app with Python tutorial

Chat with Python, Django and React

Supported features

Chat channels
Messages
Chat channel types
User management
Moderation API
Push configuration
User devices
User search
Channel search

Quickstart

chat = StreamChat(api_key="STREAM_KEY", api_secret="STREAM_SECRET")

# add a user
chat.update_user({"id": "chuck", "name": "Chuck"})

# create a channel about kung-fu
channel = chat.channel("messaging", "kung-fu")
channel.create("chuck")

# add a first message to the channel
channel.send_message({"text": "AMA about kung-fu"}, "chuck")

Contributing

First, make sure you can run the test suite. Tests are run via py.test

STREAM_KEY=my_api_key STREAM_SECRET=my_api_secret py.test stream_chat/ -v

Install black and pycodestyle

pip install black
pip install pycodestyle

Releasing a new version

In order to release new version you need to be a maintainer on Pypi.

Update CHANGELOG
Make sure you have twine installed (pip install twine)
Update the version on setup.py
Commit and push to Github
Create a new tag for the version (eg. v2.9.0)
Create a new dist with python python setup.py sdist
Upload the new distributable with twine twine upload dist/stream-chat-VERSION-NAME.tar.gz

If unsure you can also test using the Pypi test servers twine upload --repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/stream-chat-VERSION-NAME.tar.gz

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