# pkyeck/socket.IO-objc

socket.io v0.7.2 — 0.9.x for iOS and OS X

Repository: https://github.com/pkyeck/socket.IO-objc
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/socketio-objc
Language: Objective-C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2015-06-15T09:55:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5541, "days_push": 4097, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1948, forks 430 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:58.015296+00:00)

## What it is
An Objective-C client library for connecting iOS and OS X apps to Socket.IO servers (v0.7.2–0.9.x) over websockets or long-polling, built on SocketRocket. It supports messages, JSON payloads, events, acknowledgements, and namespaces.

## Use cases
- connect an iOS app to a socket.io 0.9.x server
- send events and messages from Objective-C to a node.js backend
- receive real-time updates over websockets on OS X
- use long-polling fallback when websockets are unavailable
- add authentication params to a socket.io handshake
- acknowledge messages from the client with a callback

## When to choose
- you are locked to a legacy socket.io 0.9.x server
- you maintain an old Objective-C iOS/OS X codebase that cannot adopt Swift

## When to avoid
- you target socket.io v1.0 or later (unsupported)
- you can use the official socketio/socket.io-client-swift library
- you are starting a new project

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: websocket, http-client, networking
- domain: networking, mobile-development, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: socketio, objective-c, websockets, long-polling, deprecated, real-time-messaging, real-time, ios, macos

## Member repositories
- pkyeck/socket.IO-objc (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:58.015296+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 2026-08-30T03:07:00.477247+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pkyeck/socket.IO-objc (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:58.015296+00:00, sha 27ffed1d45e5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.