seantrue / thunderpush

Tornado and SockJS based, complete Web push solution.

Thunderpush

Thunderpush is a Tornado and SockJS based push service. It provides a Beaconpush (beaconpush.com) inspired HTTP API and client.

This project is in early stage of development and should not be used in production environments.

Install

pip install thunderpush

Usage

Usage: thunderpush [options] apikey apisecret

Options:
        -h, --help            show this help message and exit
        -p PORT, --port=PORT  binds server to custom port
        -H HOST, --host=HOST  binds server to custom address
        -v, --verbose         verbose mode
        -d, --debug           debug mode (useful for development)

JavaScript client

In order to use provided by Thunderpush client, you need to include following lines on your webpage.

<script src="http://cdn.sockjs.org/sockjs-0.3.min.js"></script>
<script src="thunderpush.js"></script>

The only thing you have to do now is to make a connection to your Thunderpush server in following way:

<script type="text/javascript">
Thunder.connect("thunder.example.com", "apikey", ["testchannel"], {log: true});
Thunder.listen(function(message) { alert(message); });
</script>

This code is all you need to do to start receive messages pushed to the client from your Thunderpush server. As you can see, we instructed Thunder client to display logs, which can be helpful for debugging your application.

For more examples of how to use Thunderpush, look into examples.

Open-source libraries for communicating with the HTTP API

Python: python-thunderclient

PHP: php-thunderclient

Using the HTTP API

Example of interacting with Thunderpush API using cURL:

curl \
        -X POST \
        -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
        -H "X-Thunder-Secret-Key: secretkey" \
        --data-ascii "\"Hello World!\"" \
        http://thunder.example.com/api/1.0.0/[API key]/channel/[channel]/

All requests to the HTTP API must provide X-Thunder-Secret-Key header that should contain the private API key.

Sending a message to a channel

POST /api/1.0.0/[API key]/channels/[channel]/

Message should be sent as the body of the request. Only valid JSON body will be accepted.

Getting number of users online

GET /api/1.0.0/[API key]/users/

Checking presence of a user

GET /api/1.0.0/[API key]/users/[user id]/

Sending a message to a user

POST /api/1.0.0/[API key]/users/[user id]/

Message should be sent as the body of the request. Only valid JSON body will be accepted.

Retrieving list of users in a channel

GET /api/1.0.0/[API key]/channels/[channel]/

JavaScript client API

Connecting to the server

Thunder.connect(server, apiKey, channels, options)

Connects to the Thunderpush server and starts listening for incomming messages.

server

Adress of your Thunderpush server.

apiKey

Public api key.

channels

Array of channels you want to subscribe to.

options

Object with optional settings you may pass to Thunder:

log

Set it to true if you want to activate verbose mode. This will turn on SockJS logs as well.

user

Set it to override the client generated user id.

Listening for messages

Thunder.listen(handler)

Registers callback function that will receive incomming messages. You can register as many handlers you want. Handler function should accept one argument which is the message itself.