rootpy-client

An async Python client for the Root chat platform. It drives one account — yours — from a script or a bot, and covers messaging, communities, channels, roles, direct messages, friends, presence, voice signalling and the real-time gateway.

Unofficial. Not affiliated with Root, and not endorsed by them.

Guides, examples and the full API reference: https://rootapp.gay

Install

pip install rootpy-client

You install rootpy-client and you import rootpy. The two names differ because an unrelated project already holds rootpy on PyPI. This is not that project.

Python 3.10 or later. Playing audio into a voice call needs an opt-in extra: pip install "rootpy-client[voice]".

Use it

import asyncio
import os

from rootpy import RootClient


async def main():
    client = RootClient(token=os.environ["ROOT_TOKEN"])
    await client.login_token()

    await client.messages.send(CHANNEL_ID, "hello", community_id=COMMUNITY_ID)

    await client.close()


asyncio.run(main())

Receiving needs the gateway, and a community delivers nothing until you attach to it:

@client.event
async def on_message(event):
    print(event.message.content)


async with client.community.held(COMMUNITY_ID):
    await client.connect()
    await client.wait_until_ready()
    await asyncio.sleep(3600)

What is in it

• Messages — send, reply in a thread, edit, delete, react, pin, and paginated history.
• Communities — create, join by invite, channels and channel groups, roles and permissions, members, invites, emoji and assets.
• Discovery — search the public directory, and list your own community.
• Direct messages — conversations, group conversations, friends and blocks.
• Gateway — a websocket connection with typed events, wait_for() and reconnection.
• Voice — call signalling, mute and deafen, and audio playback behind the [voice] extra.
• Auth — token login, email and password login, and signup.

Notes worth knowing before you start

• Membership is not a subscription. Until you call client.community.attach(id), the hub sends no packet for that community at all, while direct messages and mentions keep arriving on the same socket. That asymmetry is what a broken listener looks like.
• The gateway is a resync cycle, not a persistent stream. The hub sends a batch, closes with code 1000, and expects a reconnect. That is normal. An attach does not survive it, so hold it with client.community.held(id).
• Presence is two calls, and the lower one wins. Others see min(ceiling, device). Both halves succeed on their own, so setting only the ceiling leaves your account invisible to everybody and reports success. client.set_presence(...) sets both.

Develop

git clone https://github.com/solluws/rap-p-ers
cd rap-p-ers
pip install -e ".[dev]"
python -m pytest -q

The suite is offline. It pins the wire format, so a change to an endpoint, a field number or a default fails a test rather than a live request.

Pull requests are welcome. Keep the tests green, and add one for whatever you change.

Licence

MIT. See LICENSE.

Use this on accounts you control, and read Root's terms before you automate anything on their service.