# abourget/gevent-socketio

Official repository for gevent-socketio

Repository: https://github.com/abourget/gevent-socketio
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gevent-socketio
Homepage: http://readthedocs.org/docs/gevent-socketio/en/latest/
Language: JavaScript
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2022-09-17T20:57:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5348, "days_push": 1446, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1205, forks 324 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:59.157382+00:00)

## What it is
gevent-socketio is a Python implementation of the Socket.IO protocol built on gevent and gevent-websocket, enabling real-time bidirectional communication between browsers and servers. It integrates with WSGI-based frameworks like Pyramid, Flask, and Django with minimal setup code.

## Use cases
- add real-time websocket communication to a Flask app
- implement Socket.IO server in Python
- build live chat or notifications with Django over websockets
- stream real-time updates from a Pyramid WSGI server
- use Socket.IO protocol with gevent

## When to choose
- you need Socket.IO protocol support in a Python WSGI stack
- your app already uses gevent for concurrency
- you want framework-agnostic websocket integration with Flask, Django, or Pyramid

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software with recent protocol support
- you can use native websockets without the Socket.IO protocol
- you are not using the gevent WSGI server

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: websocket, http-server, middleware
- domain: web-development, networking
- platform: python
- tags: socketio, gevent, wsgi, realtime-web, python, real-time, web-server

## Member repositories
- abourget/gevent-socketio (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:59.157382+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:19:24.268092+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/abourget/gevent-socketio (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:59.157382+00:00, sha 39faec172458)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.