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+# Streaming
+
+Sanic allows you to stream content to the client with the `stream` method. This method accepts a coroutine callback which is passed a `StreamingHTTPResponse` object that is written to. A simple example is like follows:
+
+```python
+app = Sanic(__name__)
+
+@app.route("/")
+async def test(request):
+    async def sample_streaming_fn(response):
+        await response.write('foo,')
+        await response.write('bar')
+
+    return stream(sample_streaming_fn, content_type='text/csv')
+```
+
+This is useful in situations where you want to stream content to the client that originates in an external service, like a database. For example, you can stream database records to the client with the asynchronous cursor that `asyncpg` provides:
+
+```python
+@app.route("/")
+async def index(request):
+    async def stream_from_db(response):
+        conn = await asyncpg.connect(database='test')
+        async with conn.transaction():
+            async for record in conn.cursor('SELECT generate_series(0, 10)'):
+                await response.write(record[0])
+
+    return stream(stream_from_db)
+```