Etherpad Lite is a web service that allows real-time document collaboration for groups of users. http://etherpad.org/
python-etherpad_lite provides an interface for Etherpad-Lite's HTTP API.
pip install etherpad_lite
python-etherpad_lite doesn't have dependencies and is compatible with both python 2 and 3.
From python:
from etherpad_lite import EtherpadLiteClient c = EtherpadLiteClient(base_params={'apikey':'secret_from_APIKEY.txt'}) c.createPad(padID='test', text="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.") From the command line:
$ python -m etherpad_lite -p apikey=secret_from_APIKEY.txt => Welcome to the Etherpad Lite shell ! => Command example: createPad padID=test text="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet." % createPad padID=test text="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet." ok % getHTML padID=test {u'html': u'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.<br>'} % deletePad padID=test ok See the documentation of Etherpad Lite for the list of API functions and their arguments.