A simple example using mcstatus to query a minecraft server

minecraft_server_info.py

from mcstatus import MinecraftServer
import argparse
import json

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("server", help="server name or ip", nargs='?', type=str, default="localhost")
parser.add_argument("port", help="server port", nargs='?', type=int, default=25565)
args = parser.parse_args()

print("Querying server host: {} port: {}".format(args.server, args.port))

server = MinecraftServer(args.server, args.port)
status = server.status()

print("Server description: {0}".format(status.description['text']))
print("latency: {0} ms".format(status.latency))
print("version: {0}".format(status.version.name))
print("online players: {0}".format(status.players.online))
print("raw response:")
print(json.dumps(status.raw, sort_keys=True, indent = 4, separators=(',',': ')))