Building a Minecraft Server Monitoring Library in Python 🎮

The Problem I Wanted to Solve

As a Minecraft server administrator and Python developer, I found myself repeatedly writing the same code to:

• Check if a Minecraft server was online
• Get player counts and lists
• Look up player UUIDs and skins
• Monitor server status over time

Every project required the same boilerplate code. So I decided to build a unified Python library to handle it all.

What This Library Does

Minecraft Server Utility is a Python library that makes it dead simple to interact with Minecraft servers.

Core Features

python
from minecraft_server_utility import ServerPinger, MojangAPI, PlayerUtils

# Check server status
pinger = ServerPinger("mc.hypixel.net")
info = pinger.ping()
print(f"{info['players']['online']} players online")

# Look up player UUID
api = MojangAPI()
uuid = api.get_uuid("Notch")
print(f"Notch's UUID: {uuid}")

# Get player skin
utils = PlayerUtils()
skin_url = utils.get_player_skin("Notch")
print(f"Skin URL: {skin_url}")