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+"""
+Run like:
+python -m BMM-app.py
+For each Run, it will generate thumbnails and save them to a temporary
+directory. The filepaths will be printed to the stdout, one per line.
+"""
+import importlib
+from functools import partial
+import os
+import tempfile
+import msgpack
+import msgpack_numpy as mpn
+import time
+
+from bluesky_widgets.utils.streaming import stream_documents_into_runs
+from bluesky_widgets.qt import gui_qt
+from bluesky_widgets.qt.figures import QtFigures
+from bluesky_widgets.examples.utils.generate_msgpack_data import get_catalog
+from bluesky_widgets.utils.list import EventedList 
+from bluesky_widgets.qt.zmq_dispatcher import RemoteDispatcher
+from bluesky_widgets.utils.streaming import stream_documents_into_runs
+from bluesky_widgets.models.plot_builders import Lines
+from bluesky_widgets.models.auto_plot_builders import AutoPlotter
+from bluesky_widgets.models.plot_specs import Axes, Figure
+from bluesky_kafka import RemoteDispatcher
+from bluesky_widgets.headless.figures import HeadlessFigures
+from bluesky_widgets.models.utils import run_is_live_and_not_completed
+
+from .viewer import AutoBMMPlot
+
+
+def export_thumbnails_when_complete(run):
+    "Given a BlueskyRun, export thumbnail(s) to a directory when it completes."
+    model = AutoBMMPlot()
+    model.add_run(run)
+    view = HeadlessFigures(model.figures)
+
+    uid = run.metadata["start"]["uid"]
+    directory = os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), "bluesky_widgets_example", uid)
+    os.makedirs(directory, exist_ok=True)
+
+    # If the Run is already done by the time we got it, export now.
+    # Otherwise, schedule it to export whenever it finishes.
+    def export(*args, **kwargs):
+        filenames = view.export_all(directory)
+        print("\n".join(f'"{filename}"' for filename in filenames))
+        view.close()
+
+
+    if run_is_live_and_not_completed(run):
+        run.events.new_data.connect(export)
+    else:
+        export()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    bootstrap_servers = "kafka1.nsls2.bnl.gov:9092,kafka2.nsls2.bnl.gov:9092,kafka3.nsls2.bnl.gov:9092"
+    kafka_deserializer = partial(msgpack.loads, object_hook=mpn.decode)
+    topics = ["bmm.bluesky.runengine.documents"]
+    consumer_config = {"auto.commit.interval.ms": 100, "auto.offset.reset": "latest"}
+
+    dispatcher = RemoteDispatcher(
+        topics=topics,
+        bootstrap_servers=bootstrap_servers,
+        group_id="widgets_test",
+        consumer_config=consumer_config,
+    )
+
+    dispatcher.subscribe(stream_documents_into_runs(export_thumbnails_when_complete))
+    dispatcher.subscribe(lambda name, doc: print(name, doc.get('uid'), doc.get('descriptor')))
+    dispatcher.start()