# Kafka Consumers for non node-red Producers
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/kafka-consumers-for-non-node-red-producers/70079
**Category:** General
**Created:** [4 November 2022 09:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/kafka-consumers-for-non-node-red-producers/70079 "2022-11-04T09:28:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@elfinbird](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/elfinbird)
#### Post date: [4 November 2022 09:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/kafka-consumers-for-non-node-red-producers/70079/1 "2022-11-04T09:28:00Z")
Hi,
Is anyone able to consume Kafka messages from topics produced by non node-red Producers?
For all message generated from outside the node-red project, node-red's kafka throws an error for 'unsupported snappy compression' ?
I have tried node-red-contrib-kafkajs, node-red-contrib-kafka-manager, & other libs, but all libs throw the same error. There is no configuration available in any of the nodes too. I am unable to read any Kafka messages generated from outside of node-red context.
Has any one implemented this use-case or can help me on this?
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### Author:  [@Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Steve-Mcl)
#### Post date: [4 November 2022 10:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/kafka-consumers-for-non-node-red-producers/70079/2 "2022-11-04T10:28:24Z")
This looks to be very much a duplicate of [Snappy Compression Issues with Kafka Consumer - #2 by Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/snappy-compression-issues-with-kafka-consumer/70078/2)
Why are there two threads? It only leads to confusion.
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [4 November 2022 10:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/kafka-consumers-for-non-node-red-producers/70079/3 "2022-11-04T10:39:33Z")
Closing this one to avoid confusion
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [4 November 2022 10:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/kafka-consumers-for-non-node-red-producers/70079/4 "2022-11-04T10:39:37Z")