# Snappy Compression Issues with Kafka Consumer

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/snappy-compression-issues-with-kafka-consumer/70078>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [4 November 2022 09:21 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/snappy-compression-issues-with-kafka-consumer/70078 "2022-11-04T09:21:39Z")\
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> [@elfinbird](#):
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> "Snappy codec is not available"

Do you have snappy codec installed?

From [Snappy codec related problem · Issue #460 · dpkp/kafka-python · GitHub](https://github.com/dpkp/kafka-python/issues/460) ...

> Do you have the snappy codec installed? It's not explicitly required by us in setup.py, but if you want to use that feature you'll need `python-snappy` installed

> [@elfinbird](#):
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> There are no configuration available to support kafka message compression

That would need to be raised as an issue or feature request on the node in question. You can find the repository by visiting the NPM page for each of the kafka nodes where you can raise issues.

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