news

news includes functions to retrieve news about Minecraft using the official API from Mojang

Warning

The format of the data returned by this API may change at any time

get_minecraft_news() → MinecraftNews

Returns general news about Minecraft. It uses https://launchercontent.mojang.com/news.json as source.

Example:

news = minecraft_launcher_lib.news.get_minecraft_news()
for entry in news["entries"]:
    print(entry["title"] + ":")
    print(entry["text"])
    print()

Returns:: The news
Return type:: MinecraftNews

get_java_patch_notes() → JavaPatchNotes

Returns the patch notes for Minecraft Java Edition. It uses https://launchercontent.mojang.com/javaPatchNotes.json as source.

Example:

news = minecraft_launcher_lib.news.get_java_patch_notes()
for entry in news["entries"]:
    print(entry["title"] + ":")
    print(entry["body"])
    print()

Returns:: The patch notes
Return type:: JavaPatchNotes

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