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websocat
Command-line client for WebSockets, like netcat (or curl)
Netcat, curl and socat for WebSockets. Command-line client for WebSockets, like netcat (or curl) for ws:// with advanced socat-like functions. Connecting to and serving WebSockets from the command line. Executing external program and making it communicate to WebSocket using stdin/stdout. Text and binary modes, converting between lines (or null-terminated records) and messages. Inetd mode, UNIX sockets (including abstract namespaced on Linux). Integration with Nginx using TCP or UNIX sockets. Directly using unauthenticated SOCKS5 servers for connecting to WebSockets and listening WebSocket connections. Auto-reconnect and connection-reuse modes. Linux, Windows, and Mac support, with pre-built executables. Low-level WebSocket clients and servers with an overridable underlying transport connection, e.g. calling an external program to serve as a transport for websocat (for SSL, proxying, etc.). -
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obs-websocket
Remote-control of OBS Studio through WebSocket
obs-websocket is the WebSocket control interface for OBS Studio, enabling external applications to monitor and control OBS remotely. It lets developers build tools that change scenes, control streaming or recording, manage sources, adjust inputs, read status information, and automate production workflows. The plugin is included by default in OBS Studio 28 and newer, so most modern OBS users do not need a separate installation. It exposes a structured request, response, and event protocol that can be used by dashboards, stream decks, bots, automation scripts, remote controllers, and broadcast systems. obs-websocket is especially useful for streamers, developers, live-event teams, and studios that need programmable control over OBS. It turns OBS from a manual desktop tool into an automation-ready production engine. -
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Autobahn|Python
WebSocket and WAMP in Python for Twisted and asyncio
Autobahn Python is a networking library for building Python applications that use WebSocket and WAMP. It supports both Twisted and asyncio, giving developers flexibility depending on their preferred Python event framework. The WebSocket layer enables bidirectional real-time messaging between clients and servers. The WAMP layer adds routed remote procedure calls and publish-subscribe messaging for distributed applications. Autobahn Python is useful for dashboards, IoT systems, collaborative apps, backend services, messaging platforms, and applications that need real-time communication across components. It works especially well with a WAMP router such as Crossbar.io when building routed multi-service systems. -
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Mongoose Embedded Web Server
An embedded web server
Mongoose is a networking library for C/C++. It implements event-driven non-blocking APIs for TCP, UDP, HTTP, WebSocket, MQTT. It is designed for connecting devices and bringing them online. On the market since 2004, used by vast number of open source and commercial products - it even runs on the International Space Station! Mongoose makes embedded network programming fast, robust, and easy. Cross-platform, works on Linux/UNIX, MacOS, Windows, Android, FreeRTOS, etc. Supported embedded architectures: ESP32, NRF52, STM32, NXP, and more. Built-in protocols: plain TCP/UDP, HTTP, MQTT, Websocket. SSL/TLS support: mbedTLS, OpenSSL or custom (via API). Used to solve a wide range of business needs, like implementing Web UI interface on devices, RESTful API services, telemetry data exchange, remote control for a product, remote software updates, remote monitoring, and others. -
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socket.io
Realtime application framework (Node.JS server)
socket.io is a JavaScript library that allows for realtime, bi-directional communication between web clients and servers. It is composed of two parts: a Node.js server and a JavaScript client library that runs in the browser. socket.io is focused on both reliability and speed, delivering an immensely powerful, fast and yet easy to use realtime engine that’s used by just about everyone: from Microsoft Office and Zendesk to hackathon winners and small startups. It’s considered one of the most depended-upon npm modules, and works on every platform, browser or device. -
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GraphQL WebSocket
Coherent, zero-dependency, lazy, simple, GraphQL
Coherent, zero-dependency, lazy, simple, GraphQL over WebSocket Protocol compliant server and client. Messages are represented through the JSON structure and are stringified before being sent over the network. They are bidirectional, meaning both the server and the client must conform to the specified message structure. Connection is a connection within the established socket describing a "connection" through which the operation requests will be communicated. The server can close the socket (kick the client off) at any time. The close event dispatched by the server is used to describe the fatal error to the client. The client closes the socket and the connection by dispatching a 1000: Normal Closure close event to the server indicating a normal closure. -
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IXWebSocket
websocket and http client and server library, with TLS support
IXWebSocket is a C++ library for WebSocket client and server development. It has minimal dependencies (no boost), is very simple to use and support everything you'll likely need for websocket dev (SSL, deflate compression, compiles on most platforms, etc...). HTTP client and server code is also available, but it hasn't received as much testing. It is been used on big mobile video game titles sending and receiving tons of messages since 2017 (iOS and Android). It was tested on macOS, iOS, Linux, Android, Windows and FreeBSD. Two important design goals are simplicity and correctness. -
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RESTinio
HTTP/WebSocket server C++14 library
RESTinio is a header-only C++14 library that gives you an embedded HTTP/WebSocket server. It is based on the standalone version of ASIO and is targeted primarily for the asynchronous processing of HTTP requests. Since v.0.4.1 Boost::ASIO (1.66 or higher) is also supported. Consider the task of writing a C++ application that must support some REST API, RESTinio represents our solution for that task. Server runs on the main thread, and responds to all requests with a hello-world message. Of course, you've got access to the structure of a given HTTP request, so you can apply complex logic for handling requests. Async request handling. Cannot get the response data immediately? That's ok, store the request handle somewhere and/or pass it to another execution context and get back to it when the data is ready. -
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websocket for Go
Minimal and idiomatic WebSocket library for Go
websocket is a minimal and idiomatic WebSocket library for Go. Minimal and idiomatic API. First class context.Context support. Fully passes the WebSocket autobahn-testsuite. Single dependency. JSON and protobuf helpers in the wsjson and wspb subpackages. Zero alloc reads and writes. Concurrent writes. Close handshake. net.Conn wrapper. Ping pong API. RFC 7692 permessage-deflate compression. Compile to Wasm. Transparent message buffer reuse with wsjson and wspb subpackages. Gorilla writes directly to a net.Conn and so duplicates features of net/http.Client. Gorilla requires registering a pong callback before sending a Ping. Compare godoc of nhooyr.io/websocket with gorilla/websocket side by side. Will enable easy HTTP/2 support in the future. -
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websocketd
Turn any program that uses STDIN/STDOUT into a WebSocket server
websocketd is the WebSocket daemon. It takes care of handling the WebSocket connections, launching your programs to handle the WebSockets, and passing messages between programs and web-browser. If you can run your program from the command line, you can write WebSocket endpoints. Just read incoming text from stdin and write outgoing text to stdout. Messaging is simple. Each inbound WebSocket connection runs your program in a dedicated process. Connections are isolated by process. Available for Linux, OSX, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris. Serves your static HTML, JavaScript, etc. Route different URLs to different programs. Dynamic generate content over HTTP too. Out-of-the-box support for serving content using HTTPS and WSS. Restrict which pages can make WebSocket connections. Interact with your WebSocket programs before you've built your frontend. -
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rpc-websockets
JSON-RPC 2.0 implementation over WebSockets for Node.js
The rpc-websockets library enables developers to easily implement their business logic that includes messaging between users, machines or any devices. It provides a possibility to send and receive JSON data through the WebSocket communication protocol in order to support two-way notification push, running RPC methods and firing any types of event signalling. Only clients can call RPC methods and not vice versa at the moment. Both frontend (HTML/JS-based) and backend (Node.js-based) development environments are supported. -
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µWebSockets
Compliant web server for the most demanding of applications
Being meticulously optimized for speed and memory footprint, µWebSockets is fast enough to do encrypted TLS 1.3 messaging quicker than most alternative servers can do even unencrypted, cleartext messaging. Furthermore, we partake in Google's OSS-Fuzz with a ~95% daily fuzzing coverage with no sanitizer issues. LGTM scores us flawless A+ from having zero CodeQL alerts and we compile with pedantic warning levels. µWebSockets is written entirely in C & C++ but has a seamless integration for Node.js backends. This allows for rapid scripting of powerful apps, using widespread competence. We've been fully standards compliant with a perfect Autobahn|Testsuite score since 2016. Companies with everything to lose rely on µWebSockets on a daily basis - we power the trading APIs of Bitfinex.com & Kraken.com, handling volumes of multiple billions of USD every day. Other companies include Trello, where µWebSockets is serving their 50 million users with real-time board updates. -
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LaravelS
LaravelS is an out-of-the-box adapter between Laravel/Lumen and Swoole
LaravelS is an out-of-the-box adapter between Laravel/Lumen and Swoole. LaravelS uses Swoole's Synchronous IO mode, the larger the worker_num setting, the better the concurrency performance, but it will cause more memory usage and process switching overhead. If one request takes 100ms, in order to provide 1000QPS concurrency, at least 100 Worker processes need to be configured. Create WebSocket Handler class, and implement interface WebSocketHandlerInterface. The instant is automatically instantiated when start, you do not need to manually create it. -
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libhv
Network library for developing TCP/UDP/SSL/HTTP/WebSocket/MQTT client
Like libevent, libev, and libuv, libhv provides event loop with non-blocking IO and timer, but simpler api and richer protocols. Cross-platform (Linux, Windows, MacOS, BSD, Solaris, Android, iOS) High-performance EventLoop (IO, timer, idle, custom) TCP/UDP client/server/proxy. TCP supports heartbeat, reconnect, upstream, MultiThread-safe write and close, etc. Built-in common unpacking modes (FixedLength, Delimiter, LengthField) RUDP support: WITH_KCP. SSL/TLS support: (via WITH_OPENSSL or WITH_GNUTLS or WITH_MBEDTLS) HTTP client/server (support https http1/x http2 grpc). HTTP supports static service, indexof service, proxy service, sync/async API handler. HTTP supports RESTful, router, middleware, keep-alive, chunked, SSE, etc. WebSocket client/server. -
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uWebSockets.js
μWebSockets for Node.js back-ends
µWebSockets.js is a web server bypass for Node.js that reimplements eventing, networking, encryption, web protocols, routing and pub/sub in highly optimized C++. As such, µWebSockets.js delivers web serving for Node.js, 8.5x that of Fastify and at least 10x that of Socket.IO. It is also the built-in web server of Bun. -
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GWS
Simple, fast, reliable websocket server & client
GWS is a high-performance WebSocket library for Go that provides both server and client capabilities. It is designed for high-concurrency use cases such as API gateways, chat systems, reverse proxies, online games, real-time streaming, and push or subscription services. The library exposes a minimal event-driven API, allowing developers to build WebSocket applications with relatively little code. It supports standard TCP usage as well as WebSocket operation over KCP and Unix domain sockets. GWS also includes practical features for connection handling, compression, heartbeat management, UTF-8 validation, and scalable read or write loops. It is a strong fit for Go developers who need a lightweight but feature-complete WebSocket foundation for real-time applications. -
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HyperExpress
High performance Node.js webserver with a simple-to-use API
HyperExpress aims to be a simple yet performant HTTP & Websocket Server. Combined with the power of uWebsockets.js, a Node.js binding of uSockets written in C++, HyperExpress allows developers to unlock higher throughput for their web applications with their existing hardware. This can allow many web applications to become much more performant on optimized data serving endpoints without having to scale hardware. High-performance Node.js webserver with a simple-to-use API powered by uWebsockets.js under the hood. -
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Rhubarb
A WebSocket library optimized for multiplayer JS games
Rhubarb is a lightweight WebSocket library for multiplayer HTML5 games. It is originally designed to be used by the ROYGBIV Engine. However, it can be used outside of ROYGBIV as well. Javascript is slow, therefore we want to have as much main-process-power as we can in order to do game related calculations, graphics rendering and achieving 60 FPS. For multiplayer games achieving 60 FPS gets even more complicated given that transferring data over WebSockets is a slow operation. It also triggers GC activity by copying the transferred data (if JSON is the preferred way), which eventually slows down the main thread as well. -
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socketify.py
Bringing Http/Https and WebSockets High Performance servers for PyPy3
Socketify.py is a reliable, high-performance Python web framework for building large-scale app backends and microservices. With no precedents websocket performance and a really fast HTTP server that can delivery encrypted TLS 1.3 quicker than most alternative servers can do even unencrypted, cleartext messaging. -
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SNI Cloudflare MASQUE All Countries
Value Added Warp over WebSocket via CDN Tunnel
UDP Over SSL Tunnel UDP Over SSL Tunnel is a free SSL tool with SNI Host (Spoof Host) support ( SSL Injector ). Warp-over-WebSocket-CDN Bypass ISP throttling and DPI by tunneling Cloudflare Warp traffic over WebSocket with Host Header spoofing through major CDN networks (CloudFront / Cloudflare / Akamai). Platform Protocol Tunnel License What It Does Many ISPs throttle or block VPN traffic using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). Warp-over-WebSocket-CDN wraps WireGuard UDP inside a WebSocket connection with a spoofed Host header, routing traffic through major CDN edge networks (CloudFront, Cloudflare, or Akamai). To any firewall or DPI system, the traffic looks like a legitimate WebSocket upgrade to a CDN-hosted domain. Result: Full Cloudflare Warp speed and privacy, even on heavily restricted networks — including campus, corporate, and ISP-level DPI systems. -
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GhostText
Use your text editor to write in your browser
Whenever you’re writing more than a little snippet of code anywhere on the web, activate GhostText to open your preferred text editor and enjoy your own development environment. GhostText is a browser extension that connects to your editor via its own extension. Install both extensions and, if necessary, start the GhostText server in the editor’s extension. Most editor extensions are authored by third parties. You can create more extensions for your favorite editor! Refer to the protocol document. Once you have installed both browser and editor extensions, you can activate GhostText in the current browser tab by clicking its icon in the toolbar or by using a keyboard shortcut. The editor needs to be launched first. In some editors you’ll need to run the Enable GhostText command to start the server. Refer to the documentation of each extension. Sublime Text doesn’t need this step. -
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Gorilla WebSocket
Fast, well-tested and widely used WebSocket implementation for Go
Gorilla WebSocket is a Go implementation of the WebSocket protocol. The Gorilla WebSocket package provides a complete and tested implementation of the WebSocket protocol. The package API is stable. An application can also send and receive messages using the io.WriteCloser and io.Reader interfaces. To send a message, call the connection NextWriter method to get an io.WriteCloser, write the message to the writer and close the writer when done. To receive a message, call the connection NextReader method to get an io.Reader and read until io.EOF is returned. The WebSocket protocol distinguishes between text and binary data messages. Text messages are interpreted as UTF-8 encoded text. The interpretation of binary messages is left to the application. The Gorilla WebSocket package passes the server tests in the Autobahn Test Suite using the application in the examples/autobahn subdirectory. -
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PHPSocket.IO
A server side alternative implementation of socket.io
phpSocket.io is a PHP implementation of the popular Socket.IO real-time communication protocol. It enables real-time, bidirectional communication between web clients and servers using WebSockets, with a syntax and structure similar to the original Node.js version. Built on top of Workerman, phpSocket.io is capable of handling thousands of concurrent connections and is ideal for building chat apps, live notifications, and collaborative tools in PHP. -
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Ratchet WebSocket
Asynchronous WebSocket server
Ratchet is a loosely coupled PHP library providing developers with tools to create real time, bi-directional applications between clients and servers over WebSockets. Write your own chat (aka "Hello World!" for sockets) application in a matter of minutes. After understanding "the new flow", event driven programming, compared to traditional HTTP request/response - writing any application on top of Ratchet becomes fast and easy. Ratchet provides many components for you to pick and choose from to easily add functionality. The component architecture allows you to focus on functionality with the ability to reuse and add or remove other component functionality. Ratchet is fully PSR-4 compliant, so it naturally plays well with others. Leveraging components from Symfony2, development should feel similar to many. Ratchet passes all WebSocket tests to ensure it works on all supported browsers. -
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Sockette
The cutest little WebSocket wrapper
Sockette is a tiny (367 bytes) wrapper around WebSocket that will automatically reconnect if the connection is lost. In addition to attaching additional API methods, Sockette allows you to reuse instances, avoiding the need to redeclare all event listeners. You have direct access to the (current) underlying WebSocket within every EventListener callback.
