From caa4f3c842d325b55ecc90f17e632289cc1471ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: coachbjork <anders@anyo.io>
Date: Fri, 5 May 2023 08:37:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] added a python example for the reader

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 docs/basic-usage/python/reader_example.py | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 docs/basic-usage/python/reader_example.py

diff --git a/docs/basic-usage/python/reader_example.py b/docs/basic-usage/python/reader_example.py
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+++ b/docs/basic-usage/python/reader_example.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# This example will listen for new actions on the specified channel and log them to a file
+# You can specify multiple channels to listen to by adding them to the redis_channels list
+# You need to have the redis-py library installed for this to work
+# You can install it with pip: pip3 install redis
+# Before you start this script, make sure you have the redis-server running
+
+import redis
+import logging
+import os 
+
+abs_path = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+
+# Redis connection options
+redis_ip = '127.0.0.1'
+redis_port = 6379
+redis_db = 0
+
+# Channels to subscribe to, can specify multiple
+redis_channels = ['ship::1064487b3cd1a897ce03ae5b6a865651747e2e152090f99c1d19d44e01aea5a4::actions/name/transfer']
+
+# Redis connection
+redis_connection = redis.Redis(host=redis_ip, port=redis_port, db=redis_db)
+pubsub = redis_connection.pubsub()
+pubsub.subscribe(redis_channels)
+
+# Logging options
+logging.basicConfig(
+        filename=f'/{abs_path}/output.log',
+        level=logging.INFO,
+        format='%(asctime)s - %(message)s',
+        datefmt='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
+    )
+
+# Listen for new actions
+for message in pubsub.listen():    
+    try:
+        # Filter out non-message events
+        if message['type'] == 'message':
+            # Log and print the message
+            logging.info(message['data'].decode('utf-8'))
+            print(message['data'].decode('utf-8'))
+    except:
+        # Log if the message failed to decode
+        logging.info("failed_decode",message['data'])
+
+
+