Is there a WebSocket client implemented for Python? [closed]
I found this project: http://code.google.com/p/standalonewebsocketserver/ for a WebSocket server, but I need to implement a WebSocket client in python, more exactly I need to receive some commands from XMPP in my WebSocket server.
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/websocket-client/
Ridiculously easy to use.
sudo pip install websocket-client
Sample client code:
#!/usr/bin/python
from websocket import create_connection
ws = create_connection("ws://localhost:8080/websocket")
print "Sending 'Hello, World'..."
ws.send("Hello, World")
print "Sent"
print "Receiving..."
result = ws.recv()
print "Received '%s'" % result
ws.close()
Sample server code:
#!/usr/bin/python
import websocket
import thread
import time
def on_message(ws, message):
print message
def on_error(ws, error):
print error
def on_close(ws):
print "### closed ###"
def on_open(ws):
def run(*args):
for i in range(30000):
time.sleep(1)
ws.send("Hello %d" % i)
time.sleep(1)
ws.close()
print "thread terminating..."
thread.start_new_thread(run, ())
if __name__ == "__main__":
websocket.enableTrace(True)
ws = websocket.WebSocketApp("ws://echo.websocket.org/",
on_message = on_message,
on_error = on_error,
on_close = on_close)
ws.on_open = on_open
ws.run_forever()
Autobahn has a good websocket client implementation for Python as well as some good examples. I tested the following with a Tornado WebSocket server and it worked.
from twisted.internet import reactor
from autobahn.websocket import WebSocketClientFactory, WebSocketClientProtocol, connectWS
class EchoClientProtocol(WebSocketClientProtocol):
def sendHello(self):
self.sendMessage("Hello, world!")
def onOpen(self):
self.sendHello()
def onMessage(self, msg, binary):
print "Got echo: " + msg
reactor.callLater(1, self.sendHello)
if __name__ == '__main__':
factory = WebSocketClientFactory("ws://localhost:9000")
factory.protocol = EchoClientProtocol
connectWS(factory)
reactor.run()
Since I have been doing a bit of research in that field lately (Jan, '12), the most promising client is actually : WebSocket for Python. It support a normal socket that you can call like this :
ws = EchoClient('http://localhost:9000/ws')
The client
can be Threaded
or based on IOLoop
from Tornado project. This will allow you to create a multi concurrent connection client. Useful if you want to run stress tests.
The client also exposes the onmessage
, opened
and closed
methods. (WebSocket style).