websocket-client module is WebSocket client for python. This provide the low level APIs for WebSocket. All APIs are the synchronous functions.

websocket-client supports only hybi-13.

• LGPL

This module is tested on only Python 2.7.

Type "python setup.py install" or "pip install websocket-client" to install.

This module does not depend on any other module.

py3( https://github.com/liris/websocket-client/tree/py3 ) branch is for python 3.3. Every test case is passed. If you are using python3, please check it.

Low Level API example:

from websocket import create_connection
ws = create_connection("ws://echo.websocket.org/")
print "Sending 'Hello, World'..."
ws.send("Hello, World")
print "Sent"
print "Reeiving..."
result =  ws.recv()
print "Received '%s'" % result
ws.close()

If you want to customize socket options, set sockopt.

sockopt example:

from websocket import create_connection ws = create_connection("ws://echo.websocket.org/". sockopt=((socket.IPPROTO_TCP, socket.TCP_NODELAY),) )

JavaScript websocket-like API example:

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(3):
            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()

wsdump.py is simple WebSocket test(debug) tool.

sample for echo.websocket.org:

$ wsdump.py ws://echo.websocket.org/
Press Ctrl+C to quit
> Hello, WebSocket
< Hello, WebSocket
> How are you?
< How are you?

usage::

wsdump.py [-h] [-v [VERBOSE]] ws_url

WebSocket Simple Dump Tool

positional arguments:

ws_url websocket url. ex. ws://echo.websocket.org/

optional arguments:

-h, --help show this help message and exit

-v VERBOSE, --verbose VERBOSE set verbose mode. If set to 1, show opcode. If set to 2, enable to trace websocket module

example:

$ wsdump.py ws://echo.websocket.org/
$ wsdump.py ws://echo.websocket.org/ -v
$ wsdump.py ws://echo.websocket.org/ -vv

• v0.11.0
  • Only log non-normal close status(ISSUE#31)
  • Fix default Origin isn't URI(ISSUE#32)
  • fileno support(ISSUE#33)
• v0.10.0
  • allow to set HTTP Header to WebSocketApp(ISSUE#27)
  • fix typo in pydoc(ISSUE#28)
  • Passing a socketopt flag to the websocket constructor(ISSUE#29)
  • websocket.send fails with long data(ISSUE#30)
• v0.9.0
  • allow to set opcode in WebSocketApp.send(ISSUE#25)
  • allow to modify Origin(ISSUE#26)
• v0.8.0
  • many bug fix
  • some performance improvement
• v0.7.0
  • fixed problem to read long data.(ISSUE#12)
  • fix buffer size boundary violation
• v0.6.0
  • Patches: UUID4, self.keep_running, mask_key (ISSUE#11)
  • add wsdump.py tool
• v0.5.2
  • fix Echo App Demo Throw Error: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'opcode (ISSUE#10)
• v0.5.1
  • delete invalid print statement.
• v0.5.0
  • support hybi-13 protocol.
• v0.4.1
  • fix incorrect custom header order(ISSUE#1)