echovr-api 0.1.1

Python bindings for Echo VR's HTTP API.

Echo VR API

Python bindings for Echo VR's HTTP API.

Installation

If you haven't already, install Python 3 and Pipenv.

Now, in your project directory, run:

pipenv install echovr_api

Usage Example

from requests.exceptions import ConnectionError
import json
import echovr_api

try:
    game_state = echovr_api.fetch_state()

    print(f"Game status: {game_state.game_status}")
    print(f"Seconds on clock: {game_state.game_clock}")

    if (game_state.blue_team.score > game_state.orange_team.score):
        print("Blue team is winning!")
    elif (game_state.orange_team.score > game_state.blue_team.score):
        print("Orange team is winning!")
    else:
        print("It's tied!")

    print(f"Score: {game_state.blue_team.score} - {game_state.orange_team.score}")

except ConnectionError as e:
    print("Connection refused. Make sure you're running Echo VR with the -http option and that you're in a match.")
except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError as e:
    print("Could not decode response. (Not valid JSON.)")

For full documentation of the available methods and classes, feel free to browse the docstrings in the source code.

Contributing

To get everything you need to start making changes to this package, first install Python 3 and Pipenv, clone this repository, then run:

pipenv install

Try it

To play around with the API, open an instance of Echo VR with the -http flag, then run:

pipenv run python -i ./test.py

Release process

First, update CHANGELOG.md and the version number in setup.py. Commit, tag, and push these changes.

Next, build the package:

pipenv install --dev
pipenv run python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel

Finally, upload the built packages to PyPi. You can do this using twine (pip install twine):

twine upload dist/*