👀 A cross-platform filesystem watcher toolkit for Python

notifykit is a set of components for building modern Python applications with a need for watching filesystem events efficiently.

[!Warning] notifykit is under active development right now

Installation

pip install notifykit
# or
poetry add notifykit
# or 
pdm add notifykit

notifykit is available for:

CPython 3.8-3.12 on the following platforms:

• Linux: x86_64, aarch64, x86, armv7, s390x, ppc64le, musl-x86_64, musl-aarch64
• MacOS: x86_64 & arm64
• Windows: x64 & x86

PyPY 3.8-3.10 on the following platforms:

• Linux: x86_64 & aarch64
• MacOS: x86_64

Usage

import asyncio
import os
from pathlib import Path

from notifykit import Notifier

async def watch(watched_dir: Path) -> None:
    notifier = Notifier(debounce_ms=200, debug=True)
    notifier.watch([watched_dir])

    async for event in notifier:
        # process your events
        print(event)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    watched_dir = Path("./watched_dir")
    os.makedirs(watched_dir, exist_ok=True)

    asyncio.run(watch(watched_dir))

Features

• Simple Modern Pythonic API, both sync and async
• High Performance
• Cross-platform (support not only Linux, but also MacOS)
• Easy to mock in tests
• Makes common cases easy and advance cases possible

Sources of Inspiration

• https://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify/issues
• https://github.com/absperf/asyncinotify/
• https://docs.rs/notify/latest/notify/
• https://github.com/samuelcolvin/watchfiles
• https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/tree/612e891e90432e994327b6ddaf57502366a714c0/src/rust/engine
• https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/blob/d0c8de592b71d4b934b1598926536f03e10007bd/py-polars/src/file.rs#L206
• https://github.com/TheoBabilon/async-tail/