Minecraft Server Player List

Quick script that generates a list of recent players on your server, sorted in order of who last logged in. Works by looking at the last modified time of their player.dat files in <server root>/world/playerdata, and resolving those UUIDs to a playername using Mojang's API.

Caching

Optionally, you can write out the usernames to a cache file (to prevent API rate limiting) using the --cache-file option. Usernames will only be looked up again after 120s.

Usage

$ mc_players -h
usage: mc_players [-h] [--out OUT] [--cache-file CACHE_FILE] [--cache-expiry CACHE_EXPIRY] [--html] [-n N] [--servername SERVERNAME] worldpath

Generate a list of recent players on a minecraft server.

positional arguments:
  worldpath             Path to the world folder to scan (eg <server_root>/world)

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --out OUT             Path to output file, defaults to stdout
  --cache-file CACHE_FILE
                        Path to cache file (created if not exists) to prevent rate limiting
  --cache-expiry CACHE_EXPIRY
                        Look up usernames that haven't been looked up in n seconds
  --html
  -n N                  Only return the last n usernames, default all
  --servername SERVERNAME
                        Server name for use in output

Example Output

Plain Text

$ python3 playerlist.py  /opt/mc/world
Players last seen on server
=================================================
1                Bob    Mon Oct 05 2020, 11:01 PM
2                Dan    Mon Oct 05 2020, 10:28 PM
3             George    Mon Oct 05 2020, 03:06 PM

HTML

$ python3 playerlist.py --html /opt/mc/world

<html>
  <head>
    <!-- generated with github.com/jaydenmilne/minecraft-server-player-list -->
    <title>server players</title>
    <meta name='viewport' content='width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0'>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Players on server</h1>
    <table>
      <tr><th>Place</th><th>Player</th><th>Last Seen</th></tr>
      <tr><td>1<td>Bob</td><td>Tue Oct 06 2020, 07:33 PM</td></tr>
      <tr><td>2<td>Dan</td><td>Tue Oct 06 2020, 07:06 PM</td></tr>
      <tr><td>3<td>George</td><td>Tue Oct 06 2020, 06:39 PM</td></tr>
    </table>
  </body>
</html>