Etherpad Lite is a web service that allows real-time document collaboration for groups of users. http://etherpad.org/
python-etherpad_lite provides an interface for Etherpad-Lite's HTTP API.
pip install etherpad_lite
python-etherpad_lite doesn't have dependencies and is compatible with both python 2 and 3.
From python:
from etherpad_lite import EtherpadLiteClient
c = EtherpadLiteClient(base_params={'apikey':'secret_from_APIKEY.txt'})
c.createPad(padID='test', text="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.")
From the command line:
$ python -m etherpad_lite -p apikey=secret_from_APIKEY.txt
=> Welcome to the Etherpad Lite shell !
=> Command example: createPad padID=test text="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet."
% createPad padID=test text="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet."
ok
% getHTML padID=test
{u'html': u'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.<br>'}
% deletePad padID=test
ok
See the documentation of Etherpad Lite for the list of API functions and their arguments.