confluent-kafka-python
Confluent's Python client for Apache Kafka.
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How confluent-kafka-python is used
confluent-kafka-python is a dependency in 3 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 27 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is NATS Python client (5 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Requests (81.5%), Pydantic (77.8%), cryptography (74.1%).
confluent-kafka-python popularity over time
Gid Score 46: downloads 85, use in agent projects 32, GitHub stars 1, downloads trend 52 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with confluent-kafka-python
| Requests | 81.5% of confluent-kafka-python projects · 12.0× more than average |
|---|---|
| Pydantic | 77.8% of confluent-kafka-python projects · 9.0× more than average |
| cryptography | 74.1% of confluent-kafka-python projects · 31.5× more than average |
| SQLAlchemy | 74.1% of confluent-kafka-python projects · 25.7× more than average |
| aiohttp | 70.4% of confluent-kafka-python projects · 34.1× more than average |
| joblib | 70.4% of confluent-kafka-python projects · 99.3× more than average |
| jsonschema | 70.4% of confluent-kafka-python projects · 43.3× more than average |
| NetworkX | 70.4% of confluent-kafka-python projects · 70.5× more than average |
From all 27 projects in our scan that use confluent-kafka-python, including the dependency samples.
Install
| Package | pip install confluent-kafka |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (27) |
| Example projects | bingal/fastdomaincheck-mcp-server-python, ac-voice-ai/rasa-audiocodes, Zaydo123/Solana-RPC-Listener, Knuckles-Team/geniusbot |
Alternatives to confluent-kafka-python
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside confluent-kafka-python are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NATS Python client pypi · new in the catalog Python client for NATS messaging and JetStream. |
41 | 5 (0.3%) | 1.5M | 1,264 | Apache-2.0 |
| Pika pypi · new in the catalog RabbitMQ (AMQP) client for Python. |
52 | 3 (0.2%) | 2.8M | 3,888 | BSD |
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