mcsrvstat.nim

A hybrid and asynchronous Nim wrapper for the Minecraft Server Status API.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
  • as a CLI application
  • as a Nim library
• Building
• Similar Projects
• License

📦 Installation

• Nim (using nimble)

# Requires Nim v1.6 or greater.
$ nimble install mcsrvstat.nim

• macOS (using Homebrew)

# Tapping the formula.
$ brew tap hitblast/nimtap

# Installing it.
$ brew install mcsrvstat

• Binary Downloads

You can manually download the packages required from the latest release in the Releases section. The build artifacts are also stored for you to download as well.

⚡ Usage

This package, AKA mcsrvstat.nim, is a hybrid package. Meaning that it can be used as both a Nim library and a standalone CLI application inside your terminal.

... as a CLI application

After installing the package (see this section), the binary for mcsrvstat.nim should be in your PATH variable depending on how you've installed it. This means, a new mcsrvstat command will be added to your shell environment. Simply run it using the following command snippets:

# The default help command.
$ mcsrvstat --help  # -h also works

# Fetching a Minecraft: Java Edition server.
$ mcsrvstat hypixel.net

# Fetching a Minecraft: Bedrock Edition server.
$ mcsrvstat mco.mineplex.com --bedrock

# Fetching with auto-refreshing enabled.
$ mcsrvstat play.hivemc.com --autorefresh

... as a Nim library

Aside of the CLI binary, mcsrvstat.nim can also work as a Nim library as mentioned once before. You'll have to install the package using Nimble (see this section) and then you're done. Here is some basic code for you to get started with:

# Imports.
import std/[
    asyncdispatch,
    strformat
]
import mcsrvstatpkg/base

# Defining a Server object instance. This represents a Minecraft server.
let server = Server(
    address: "hypixel.net",
    platform: JAVA  # can also be BEDROCK (derives from the Platform enum, see documentation to learn more)
)

# The primary procedure.
proc main() {.async.} =
    await server.refreshData()  # Loads the server data into memory.

    if server.isOnline:
        echo fmt"Server running on: {server.ip} (port {server.port})"

        # Save the icon of the server.
        writeFile("server-icon.png", server.icon)
        echo "Server icon saved as an image!"

    else:
        echo "Server is offline!"

# Running it.
waitFor main()

For more use cases and detailed explanation, you can visit the official documentation and view the different types, examples and procedures. It's frequently updated with the package itself so any new features will directly modify the documentation alongside!

🔨 Building

# Prepare a release build.
# This uses the "release" task provided with the project.
$ nimble release

The various third-party libraries and dependancies used for developing this project are mentioned below:

• Internal dependencies:

  1. The argparse library, for parsing command-line arguments for the CLI binary.
  2. The illwill library, for the terminal user interface (TUI).

• External dependencies (noted in the root .nimble file):

  1. OpenSSL for connection and making API calls.

✨ Check out my other similar projects!

The api.mcsrvstat.py library is another asynchronous wrapper for the very same Minecraft Server Status API, but instead it's implemented in Python. If you like this project and by chance if you're also a Python developer, then hopefully you'll have fun tinkering with api.mcsrvstat.py as well.

🔖 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.