# tSocketTextStreamInput

Creates a textual input stream by connecting to a network.

tSocketTextStreamInput uses a TCP socket to receive data from a given network server, interprets the incoming data to UTF8 with *\n* as line delimiter and sends the data to the following component for processing.

### In this section

* [tSocketTextStreamInput properties for Apache Spark Streaming](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/7.2/tsockettextstreaminput/tsockettextstreaminput-properties-for-apache-spark-streaming)