This is the official Python library for accessing DataSift.

Install with pip:

pip install datasift-beta

Install from source:

git clone [email protected]:datasift/datasift-python.git
cd datasift-python
python setup.py install

Full documentation is available at http://datasift.github.io/datasift-python

This version of the client library has been tested, and is known to work against the following language versions and Operating Systems:

• Python 2.6
• Python 2.7
• Python 3.3
• Python 3.4
• pypy 2.7

• Linux
• BSD
• OS X
• Windows 7/8

This code should conform to pep8, with the exception of E501, the 79 character line limit.

It can be style checked with the pep8 module by running pep8 --show-source --ignore=E501 datasift/*.py

Supports Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.3, as well as pypy. Uses requests, autobahn, six and twisted.

All code contained in this repository is Copyright 2012-Present MediaSift Ltd.

This code is released under the BSD license. Please see the LICENSE file for more details.

• v.2.0.7 Small bugfix for livestreaming (2014-05-09)

• v.2.0.6 Added windows support for livestreaming (2014-05-09)

• v.2.0.5 Added support for all 3 outputs in pull (2014-04-29)

• v.2.0.4 Upgraded the output mapper date logic to be more robust (2014-03-18)

• v.2.0.3 Fixed secure websockets on OpenSSL >1.0 (2014-02-20)

• v.2.0.2 Improved reconnection logic for livestreaming (2014-02-20)

• v.2.0.1 Fixed disconnect problems in livestreaming on slow streams (2014-02-19)

• v.2.0.0 Ground up rewrite. (2014-02-14)

• v.0.5.7 Fixed issues with buffers on reconnections (2013-06-28)

• v.0.5.6 Fixed broken tests, multistreaming, reconnection timeout (2013-05-03)

• v.0.5.5 Introduced automatic reconnection after 65 seconds of no data or ticks. Solves 'silent disconnect' issue (2013-03-06)

• v.0.5.4 Removed checks for existance of deprecated 'volume_info' field in historics/prepare response (2013-01-18)

• v.0.5.3 Added missing Historic sample size into historic/prepare requests (2012-12-03)

• v.0.5.2 Patch for the missing availability info after Historic/prepare [woozyking](https://github.com/woozyking) (2012-11-28)

• v.0.5.1 Removed unit tests that are no longer required (2012-08-30)

• v.0.5.0 Added support for Historic queries and Push delivery (2012-08-27)

• v.0.4.0 Fixed issues with SSL timeouts & low throughput streams (2012-08-08)

• v.0.3.0 Added SSL support and fixed a reconnection bug (2012-05-16)

  The SSL support is enabled by default and can be disabled by passing false as the third parameter to the User constructor, or calling enableSSL(false) on the User object.

• v.0.2.0 Fixed the handling of error messages in streams (2012-05-04)

• v.0.1.1 Initial release (2012-03-09)