ChatExchange

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

Dependencies

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

Shortcuts

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

License

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.

Contribution

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.