libraries for lz4 compression codec not found - kafka python

Question

Error using kafka python (kafka-python 1.4.7)

Kafka Consumer throwing error

kafka.errors.UnsupportedCodecError: UnsupportedCodecError: libraries for lz4 compression codec not found

Answer 1

Found the solution while I was reading the docs

https://kafka-python.readthedocs.io/en/master/install.html

Just installed lz4 using pip and restarted it.

pip install lz4