This library allows accessing the status endpoint as described in the HITB+ CyberWeek PRO CTF 2021 Rules
For usage information check out the hitb_client/client.py, the code should not be too hard to understand.
You can optionally cache requests using a redis backend. This makes sense if you have limited bandwidth and start a large amount of processes in parallel or frequently call the functions, since each function equates an HTTP request to the endpoint.
To enable redis caching setup a redis listening on localhost:6379 and set the environment variable export HITB_CLIENT_CACHE=1. You can adjust the default TTL of 5 seconds by setting e.g. HITB_CLIENT_CACHE_EXPIRY=15.
The library is not available on pypi.org, instead it can be installed using
pip3 install git+https://github.com/ENOFLAG/HITB-client.git
An example program might look as follows: ToDo