mattermostwrapper

mattermostwrapper is a small, dependency-light Python library that wraps the Mattermost v4 REST API behind a single MattermostAPI class. It handles authentication, token management, and JSON request/response plumbing so you can log in to a Mattermost server and interact with teams, channels, users, and messages in a few lines of code.

Designed primarily for building chat bots and server-side automation, the wrapper exposes convenience methods for common operations such as listing teams, retrieving channel listings, resolving usernames, and posting messages to channels, all on top of the requests library.

What You Get

• A single MattermostAPI class that manages the API base URL, team context, and bearer token
• Login helper that authenticates and stores the session token automatically for subsequent requests
• Convenience methods for teams, channels, users, and posting messages
• Generic get and post helpers for calling any Mattermost v4 endpoint not covered by a named method

Common Use Cases

• Building Mattermost chat bots that respond in channels
• Automating channel and message posting from scripts or cron jobs
• Querying team and channel metadata from a Mattermost server programmatically

Under The Hood

Architecture - The library is a single module, mattermostwrapper/wrapper.py, defining one MattermostAPI class. The constructor stores the API base URL, team name, and an optional token; login() posts credentials to /users/login, captures the returned Token header, and resolves the team id via get_team_id(). Every higher-level method (teams, channels, users, posting) is a thin wrapper over two private-ish helpers, get() and post(), which attach the Authorization: Bearer header and JSON-encode payloads through requests.

Tech Stack - Pure Python built on the requests HTTP library; setup.py/setup.cfg package it with setuptools, and requirements.txt pins requests, pytest, and pytest-runner. It targets the Mattermost v4 API and has no other runtime dependencies.

Code Quality - The code is compact and readable with docstrings on most methods, but there is no test suite despite pytest being listed, no type hints, and minimal error handling (responses are json.loads’d without status checks). The project has been inactive since 2020, so it reflects an older, simple style.

API Design - The surface is small and approachable: construct, login(), then call named helpers or fall back to generic get/post. This makes getting started trivial, though the lack of typed models and the need to know raw endpoint paths for uncovered routes limit ergonomics for larger integrations.