How to get latest offset for a partition for a kafka topic?

If you wish to use Kafka shell scripts present in kafka/bin, then you can get latest and smallest offsets by using kafka-run-class.sh.

To get latest offset command will look like this

bin/kafka-run-class.sh kafka.tools.GetOffsetShell --broker-list localhost:9092 --time -1 --topic topiname

To get smallest offset command will look like this

bin/kafka-run-class.sh kafka.tools.GetOffsetShell --broker-list localhost:9092 --time -2 --topic topiname

You can find more information on Get Offsets Shell from following link

Hope this helps!

Finally after spending a day on this and several false starts, I was able to find a solution and get it working. Posting it her so that others may refer to it.

from kafka import SimpleClient
from kafka.protocol.offset import OffsetRequest, OffsetResetStrategy
from kafka.common import OffsetRequestPayload

client = SimpleClient(brokers)

partitions = client.topic_partitions[topic]
offset_requests = [OffsetRequestPayload(topic, p, -1, 1) for p in partitions.keys()]

offsets_responses = client.send_offset_request(offset_requests)

for r in offsets_responses:
    print "partition = %s, offset = %s"%(r.partition, r.offsets[0])