httpstream was forked from https://github.com/hoisie/twitterstream

A Go http streaming client. http-streaming is most-associated with the twitter stream api. This client works with twitter, but has also been tested against the data-sift stream as well as http://flowdock.com

This is an example of using the Twitter stream sample :

package main
import "github.com/araddon/httpstream"
func main() {
stream := make(chan []byte)
done := make(chan bool)
client := httpstream.NewBasicAuthClient("yourusername", "pwd", func(line []byte) {
stream <- line
})
go func() {
_ := client.Sample(done)
for line := range stream {
println(string(line))
// heavy lifting like json serialization, etc
}
}()
_ = <- done
}

There are a few more samples in the Examples folder.

Use a channel instead of func :

 stream := make(chan []byte)
done := make(chan bool)
client := httpstream.NewChannelClient("yourusername", "pwd", stream)
go func() {
for line := range stream {
println(string(line))
}
}()
client.Sample(done)
_ = <- done

For more information about streaming apis

• twitter stream api: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-api/methods
• flowdock: https://www.flowdock.com/api
• datasift stream api: http://dev.datasift.com/docs/streaming-api