PyKafka is a programmer-friendly Kafka client for Python. It includes Python implementations of Kafka producers and consumers, which are optionally backed by a C extension built on librdkafka. It runs under Python 2.7+, Python 3.4+, and PyPy, and supports versions of Kafka 0.8.2 and newer.

PyKafka's primary goal is to provide a similar level of abstraction to the JVM Kafka client using idioms familiar to Python programmers and exposing the most Pythonic API possible.