ChatExchange

A Python API for talking to Stack Exchange chat.

Dependencies

• 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.
• python-websockets for the experimental websocket listener (pip install websocket-client). This module is optional, without it initSocket() from SEChatBrowser will not work

Shortcuts

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

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.