A Python2 and Python3 cross-version API for talking to Stack Exchange chat.

• Supported Python versions (Travis CI build run for each of these):
  2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7-dev, nightly
• Unclear versions (not run on Travis CI as pytest does not support them): 2.6, 3.2, 3.3

Make sure you use either pip2 or pip3 depending on which Python version you want to run this on.

• BeautifulSoup (pip install beautifulsoup4)
• Requests (pip install requests). Usually there by default. Please upgrade it with pip install requests --upgrade
  Note that Ubuntu comes with an old version of pip that is not compatible any more with the latest version of requests. It will be broken after you installed requests, except if you update it before (or afterwards) with easy_install pip or pip install --upgrade pip (that one works only before).
• python-websockets for the experimental websocket listener (pip install websocket-client). This module is optional, without it initSocket() from SEChatBrowser will not work

The package has a number of additional development requirements; install them with

pip install chatexchange[dev]

or .[dev] if you are in the top directory of a local copy of the source.

1. make install-dependencies will install the necessary Python package dependencies into your current environment (active virtualenv or system site packages)
2. make test will run the tests
3. make run-example will run the example script
4. make will run the above three in order

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.