ickafka

A kafka consumer with color. Name inspired by icdiff.

Installation

pip install ickafka

Start consuming at the latest offset:

ickafka -s localhost:9092 -t my_test_topic

To specify a consumer group name (default is None):

ickafka -s localhost:9092 -t my_test_topic -g testgroup

Consume all messages from the earliest offset:

ickafka -s localhost:9092 -t my_test_topic -o earliest

Capture all consumed messages into a json file:

ickafka -s localhost:9092 -t my_test_topic --capture

Disabling color:

ickafka -s localhost:9092 -t my_test_topic --no-color