mcstatus

MCStatus

Mcstatus provides an API and command line script to fetch publicly available data from Minecraft servers. Specifically, mcstatus retrieves data by using these protocols: Server List Ping and Query. Because of mcstatus, you do not need to fully understand those protocols and can instead skip straight to retrieving minecraft server data quickly in your own programs.

Installation

Mcstatus is available on PyPI, and can be installed trivially with:

python3 -m pip install mcstatus

Usage

Python API

Java Edition

from mcstatus import JavaServer

# You can pass the same address you'd enter into the address field in minecraft into the 'lookup' function
# If you know the host and port, you may skip this and use JavaServer("example.org", 1234)
server = JavaServer.lookup("example.org:1234")

# 'status' is supported by all Minecraft servers that are version 1.7 or higher.
# Don't expect the player list to always be complete, because many servers run
# plugins that hide this information or limit the number of players returned or even
# alter this list to contain fake players for purposes of having a custom message here.
status = server.status()
print(f"The server has {status.players.online} player(s) online and replied in {status.latency} ms")

# 'ping' is supported by all Minecraft servers that are version 1.7 or higher.
# It is included in a 'status' call, but is also exposed separate if you do not require the additional info.
latency = server.ping()
print(f"The server replied in {latency} ms")

# 'query' has to be enabled in a server's server.properties file!
# It may give more information than a ping, such as a full player list or mod information.
query = server.query()
print(f"The server has the following players online: {', '.join(query.players.names)}")

Bedrock Edition

from mcstatus import BedrockServer

# You can pass the same address you'd enter into the address field in minecraft into the 'lookup' function
# If you know the host and port, you may skip this and use BedrockServer("example.org", 19132)
server = BedrockServer.lookup("example.org:19132")

# 'status' is the only feature that is supported by Bedrock at this time.
# In this case status includes players.online, latency, motd, map, gamemode, and players.max. (ex: status.gamemode)
status = server.status()
print(f"The server has {status.players.online} players online and replied in {status.latency} ms")

See the documentation to find what you can do with our library!

Command Line Interface

This only works with Java servers; Bedrock is not yet supported. Use mcstatus -h to see helpful information on how to use this script.

License

Mcstatus is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. See LICENSE for full text.