The latest articles on DEV Community by darkboy0p (@darkboy0p). https://dev.to/darkboy0p https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4078568%2Ff791fa03-00fb-4c14-a7c1-d5cceaf027a1.png https://dev.to/darkboy0p en darkboy0p Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:50:49 +0000 https://dev.to/darkboy0p/building-a-minecraft-server-monitoring-library-in-python-1apc https://dev.to/darkboy0p/building-a-minecraft-server-monitoring-library-in-python-1apc <h1> Building a Minecraft Server Monitoring Library in Python 🎮 </h1> <h2> The Problem I Wanted to Solve </h2> <p>As a Minecraft server administrator and Python developer, I found myself repeatedly writing the same code to:</p> <ul> <li>Check if a Minecraft server was online</li> <li>Get player counts and lists</li> <li>Look up player UUIDs and skins</li> <li>Monitor server status over time</li> </ul> <p>Every project required the same boilerplate code. So I decided to build a <strong>unified Python library</strong> to handle it all.</p> <p><a href="https://pypi.org/project/minecraft-server-utility/" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fimg.shields.io%2Fpypi%2Fv%2Fminecraft-server-utility" alt="PyPI Version" width="78" height="20"></a><br> <a href="https://pypi.org/project/minecraft-server-utility/" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fimg.shields.io%2Fpypi%2Fpyversions%2Fminecraft-server-utility" alt="Python Versions" width="214" height="20"></a><br> <a href="https://github.com/darkboy0p/minecraft-server-utility/blob/main/LICENSE" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fimg.shields.io%2Fgithub%2Flicense%2Fdarkboy0p%2Fminecraft-server-utility" alt="License" width="78" height="20"></a><br> <a href="https://github.com/darkboy0p/minecraft-server-utility/stargazers" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fimg.shields.io%2Fgithub%2Fstars%2Fdarkboy0p%2Fminecraft-server-utility" alt="GitHub stars" width="76" height="20"></a></p> <h2> What This Library Does </h2> <p><strong>Minecraft Server Utility</strong> is a Python library that makes it dead simple to interact with Minecraft servers.</p> <h3> Core Features </h3> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code> 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}") </code></pre> </div> python minecraft opensource programming