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id: kafka-python
version: "3.0.10"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# kafka-python — Pure Python client for Apache Kafka

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install kafka-python
uv add kafka-python
poetry add kafka-python

## Description

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kafka-python is a pure-python client library for Apache Kafka, the distributed
stream processing engine. It has no external dependencies and no Cython/C/rust
core, making installation across a wide variety of environments simple and easy
to manage. It provides high-level class components for consumer, producer, and
admin clients, as well as CLI scripts for quick interactive tasks.

``kafka-python admin`` serves as a simple alternative to the apache kafka bin/
scripts, particularly if/when you do not have easy access to an
installed/compatible jvm. The CLI interface for admin commands is provided as
``kafka-python admin`` and ``python -m...

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kafka-python is a pure-Python client library for Apache Kafka that provides high-level consumer, producer, and admin clients with no external compiled dependencies, plus CLI tools for interactive Kafka operations.

Verdict: kafka-python is a production-stable, actively maintained client library with zero known vulnerabilities, no install friction, and permissive licensing. It is well-suited for applications needing Kafka integration across diverse Python environments, though performance-critical use cases may optionally install crc32c for CPU-intensive checksum offloading.

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