Install with your favorite package manager

• Pip:

  pip install kafka-python

• Releases are also listed at https://github.com/mumrah/kafka-python/releases Bleeding-Edge

  git clone https://github.com/mumrah/kafka-python
  pip install ./kafka-python

• Setuptools:

  git clone https://github.com/mumrah/kafka-python
  easy_install ./kafka-python

• Using setup.py directly:

  git clone https://github.com/mumrah/kafka-python
  cd kafka-python
  python setup.py install

Install Development Libraries

• snappy library >= 1.0.2 (or revision 27) https://github.com/google/snappy

  You can install Snappy C library with following commands:

  • APT: :code:sudo apt-get install libsnappy-dev
  • RPM: :code:sudo yum install libsnappy-devel
  • Brew: :code:brew install snappy

• To use with pypy:

  • cffi >= 0.7 http://cffi.readthedocs.org/
  • Supports Python 2.7 and Python 3

• Download and build Snappy from source

  1. Download as tar

     wget https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/45/35/65d9f8cc537129894b4b32647d80212d1fa342877581c5b8a69872cea8be/python-snappy-0.5.4.tar.gz
     tar xzvf python-snappy-0.5.4.tar.gz
     cd python-snappy-0.5.4

     or Clone github repo

     git clone https://github.com/andrix/python-snappy
     cd python-snappy

  2. Build:

     python setup.py build

  3. Install:

     python setup.py install

• Install it from PyPi:

  pip install python-snappy

• Ubuntu:

  apt-get install libsnappy-dev

• OSX:

  brew install snappy