DataSift Python Client Library

This is an unofficial Python library for Datasift.

It currently supports compiling CSDLs via the REST API and consuming an HTTP Stream via the Streaming API.

Requirements

• requests

Example

fromdatasiftimport (
DataSiftUser,
DataSiftDefinition,
DataSiftStream,
DataSiftStreamListener
)
# Fill in account credentialsDATASIFT_USERNAME="my_username"DATASIFT_API_KEY="my_api_key"# Create useruser=DataSiftUser(DATASIFT_USERNAME, DATASIFT_API_KEY)
# Create, compile CSDLcsdl='interaction.type == "twitter" and '\
'(interaction.content contains "skrillex")'definition=DataSiftDefinition(csdl, user)
definition.compile()
# Define listenerclassMyListener(DataSiftStreamListener):
defon_data(self, data):
printdata# Create stream, listenlistener=MyListener()
stream=DataSiftStream(listener, definition, user)
stream.listen()

License

All code is released under the MIT license. Please read the LICENSE.txt file for more details.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to joshthecoder and his tweepy library for demonstrating HTTP stream consumption via httplib.