q3rconlib 0.3.1

A Quake3 RCON interface in Python

A Quake3 RCON interface in Python

Send rcon commands to Q3 compatible servers.

For an outline of past/future changes refer to: CHANGELOG

Requirements

• Python 3.11 or greater
• The game must implement RCON using the Q3 protocol.

Installation

pip install q3rconlib

Use

import os

import q3rconlib


def main():
    with q3rconlib.connect(
        host=os.environ["Q3RCON_HOST"],
        port=int(os.environ["Q3RCON_PORT"]),
        password=os.environ["Q3RCON_PASSWORD"],
    ) as rcon:
        resp = rcon.send("status")
        print(resp)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

q3rconlib.connect(host: str='host', port: int=port, password: str='strongrconpassword')

The Q3Rcon class accepts the following keyword arguments:

• host: hostname the gameserver resides on
• port: port the gameserver accepts rcon requests on
• password: rcon password
• login_timeout: max timeout for a successful login
• default_timeout: default amount of time we wait for a response from the game server
• timeouts: a dict containing cmd: timeout mappings.
  • Some commands take more time to return a response or the response is returned in fragments. You may pass a timeouts dict to specify how long to wait for a given command.

Timeouts

Let's say that that restarting or rotating the map takes a long time, you could pass the following timeouts dict:

timeouts = {
    "map_restart": 1,
    "map_rotate": 1,
}

with q3rconlib.connect(timeouts=timeouts, **config_from_toml()) as rcon:
    """do cool stuff"""

This will cause the program to wait for 1 second for all response fragments to come back from the server.