DEPRECATED

Recommended replacement: https://github.com/fgeller/kt

This tool was thrown together back when kt only had the ability to consume messages from a topic. kt's features have now grown to so much more that there really isn't any reason for this tool to exist. I highly recommend using kt for all your Kafka needs instead.

Cheers!

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kp - a Kafka tool

A straightforward CLI tool to produce data into Kafka. Intended as a counterpart to fgeller/kt.

Installation

The only dependency is dpkp/kafka-python, which you can install using pip:

$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
$ sudo pip install kafka-python

With that installed, kp will just run. I recommend putting kp somewhere on your PATH to make it easily accessible.

Usage

$ kp -h
usage: kp [-h] [--brokers BROKERS] [--json] topic

Produce messages to Kafka. Supports a JSON input format for complex messages.

positional arguments:
  topic              topic to produce to.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  --brokers BROKERS  comma separated list of brokers.
  --json             parses input as JSON expecting {"partition":<int>,"key":<key>,"message":<message>}, all optional.

Examples

Produce a message to topic my-topic partition 0 with an empty key:

$ kp my-topic
this is a message

Produce a message with a specific partition, key, and message:

$ kp my-topic --json
{"partition":1,"key":"my-key","message":"this is a message"}

Produce a JSON formatted message and key:

$ kp my-topic --json
{"partition":3,"key":{"complex":"key"},"message":[42,"bits",{"of":"data"}]}

Bulk load messages into a topic:

$ cat messages | kp my-topic --json