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##Code Snippet

Using curl:

$ curl http://stackoverflow.hewgill.com:8080/firehose/stackoverflow

or, in a browser, http://stackoverflow.hewgill.com:8080/firehose/stackoverflow.

##About

This "firehose" service repackages the stream provided by the /events service into a form similar to the Twitter Streaming API.

Each event is sent in an individual snippet of JSON. Each snippet is followed by a carriage return (\r) plus one or more newlines (\n). Newlines may be sent periodically between snippets to help keep connections open.

The current average rate of new events from Stack Overflow is less than one per second.

At present, only the stackoverflow event feed is supported. Supporting all SE sites would currently require too many separate API requests to the /events service.

This is mostly intended as a "proof of concept" demonstrating how such an API could be offered; hopefully this sort of streaming service will be available in a future version of the Stack Exchange API.

###Platform

This streaming service can be used by any HTTP client that can consume a response of indefinite length. Usually this will not be an in-browser application, but desktop and server side apps can use this.

##Contact

Greg Hewgill

Please let me know if you are using this service, as I may change things that affect users.

##Code

This service is written in Erlang using Mochiweb.

##Code Snippet

Using curl:

$ curl http://stackoverflow.hewgill.com:8080/firehose/stackoverflow

or, in a browser, http://stackoverflow.hewgill.com:8080/firehose/stackoverflow.

##About

This "firehose" service repackages the stream provided by the /events service into a form similar to the Twitter Streaming API.

Each event is sent in an individual snippet of JSON. Each snippet is followed by a carriage return (\r) plus one or more newlines (\n). Newlines may be sent periodically between snippets to help keep connections open.

The current average rate of new events from Stack Overflow is less than one per second.

At present, only the stackoverflow event feed is supported. Supporting all SE sites would currently require too many separate API requests to the /events service.

This is mostly intended as a "proof of concept" demonstrating how such an API could be offered; hopefully this sort of streaming service will be available in a future version of the Stack Exchange API.

###Platform

This streaming service can be used by any HTTP client that can consume a response of indefinite length. The responses have an Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * header which makes this possible to use in a browser.

##Contact

Greg Hewgill

Please let me know if you are using this service, as I may change things that affect users.

##Code

This service is written in Erlang using Mochiweb.

##Code Snippet

Using curl:

$ curl http://stackoverflow.hewgill.com:8080/firehose/stackoverflow

or, in a browser, http://stackoverflow.hewgill.com:8080/firehose/stackoverflow.

##About

This "firehose" service repackages the stream provided by the /events service into a form similar to the Twitter Streaming API.

Each event is sent an individual snippet of JSON. Each snippet is followed by a carriage return (\r) plus one or more newlines (\n). Newlines may be sent periodically between snippets to help keep connections open.

The current average rate of new events from Stack Overflow is less than one per second.

At present, only the stackoverflow event feed is supported. Supporting all SE sites would currently require too many separate API requests to the /events service.

This is mostly intended as a "proof of concept" demonstrating how such an API could be offered; hopefully this sort of streaming service will be available in a future version of the Stack Exchange API.

###Platform

This streaming service can be used by any HTTP client that can consume a response of indefinite length. Usually this will not be an in-browser application, but desktop and server side apps can use this.

##Contact

Greg Hewgill

Please let me know if you are using this service, as I may change things that affect users.

##Code

This service is written in Erlang using Mochiweb.

##Code Snippet

Using curl:

$ curl http://stackoverflow.hewgill.com:8080/firehose/stackoverflow

or, in a browser, http://stackoverflow.hewgill.com:8080/firehose/stackoverflow.

##About

This "firehose" service repackages the stream provided by the /events service into a form similar to the Twitter Streaming API.

Each event is sent in an individual snippet of JSON. Each snippet is followed by a carriage return (\r) plus one or more newlines (\n). Newlines may be sent periodically between snippets to help keep connections open.

The current average rate of new events from Stack Overflow is less than one per second.

At present, only the stackoverflow event feed is supported. Supporting all SE sites would currently require too many separate API requests to the /events service.

This is mostly intended as a "proof of concept" demonstrating how such an API could be offered; hopefully this sort of streaming service will be available in a future version of the Stack Exchange API.

###Platform

This streaming service can be used by any HTTP client that can consume a response of indefinite length. Usually this will not be an in-browser application, but desktop and server side apps can use this.

##Contact

Greg Hewgill

Please let me know if you are using this service, as I may change things that affect users.

##Code

This service is written in Erlang using Mochiweb.