mcterm 0.9.5

Better Minecraft Server Terminal

Better Minecraft Remote Console

This library utilizes SQLLite3 and Prompt Toolkit to improve upon the mccron package. Several improvements have been made to include history, word completion, and an extensive database for many Minecraft console commands.

The database is required in order to run this tool.

Cloning the Repository

You must have git installed.

git clone https://newgit.inuxnet.org/devel/bettermcrcon.git

Installation

You can install this library locally by issuing the following command. It is recommended to use a python virtual environment.

Setting up and activating the Python Virtual Environment

You must have Python Virtual Environment installed, please review your specific OS instructions to install VirtualEnv on your system.

From the directory of the repository:

python3 -m venv venv

Depending on your OS you may need to source different files. These are located in venv\scripts on Windows and venv/bin on Unix, Linux and OSX.

Windows Command Line:

venv\scripts\activate.bat

Windows Powershell:

. venv\scripts\activate.ps1

Unix, Linux, OSX:

. venv/bin/activate

To exit the Virtual Environment:

deactivate

Installing using the setup.py

All commands should be run from the root directory of the repository.

pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 setup.py install

Installing from PyPi

pip install mcterm

Usage

Installation will install mcterm inside the bin path and should be accessible. The database must be created or installed. If the database cannot be found, mcterm will attempt to create by locating or downloading the SQL Dump of the database. If this fails, the program will not run.

Usage: mcterm [--host <value>] [--port <value>] [--password <value>] [--prompt <value>]

    --host     - The hostname or IP of the Minecraft Server
    --port     - The port of the Minecraft Server is listening on for Console.
    --password - The password for the server.
    --prompt   - Custom Prompt (Defaults to '<host>:<port> >>> ')

Non-MC Commands:

<host>:<port> >>> ? <command> # Launches a browser tab for online help
<host>:<port> >>> exit        # Exits the console
<host>:<port> >>> quit        # Exits the console

Example Usage:

$ mcterm
Server Hostname or IP: 192.168.1.3
Server Port: 11111
Enter Password: secretpassword
Database is valid.
192.168.1.3:11111 >>> ? enchant

$ mcterm --host 192.168.1.3 --port 11111
Enter Password: secretpassword
Database is valid.
192.168.1.3:11111 >>> help advancement

$ mcterm --host 192.168.1.3 --port 11111 --password 'secretpassword'
Database is valid.
192.168.1.3:11111 >>> give bob iron_block 64

$ mcterm --host 192.168.1.3 --port 11111 --password 'secretpassword' --prompt 'MyServer >>> '
Database is valid.
MyServer >>> ? advancement