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roslibpy

  • Software
  • Middleware
  • Library

A Python library for talking to ROS robots over WebSockets via rosbridge, without needing a local ROS installation. It mirrors the API of roslibjs.

Made by Robot Web Tools.

Source on GitHub: github.com/RobotWebTools/roslibpy (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit f5793db (opens in a new tab).

Licenses

Code
MIT (opens in a new tab)

Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (MIT) at commit f5793db (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.

Commercial use
Yes

What it does

  • Publishes and subscribes to ROS topics.
  • Makes service calls and advertises services.
  • Gets, sets and deletes ROS parameters and queries ROS meta-information.
  • Supports actionlib for preemptable tasks.
  • Provides a TF client through the tf2_web_republisher.
  • Runs on Python 3.x and IronPython 2.7, with ROS 1 fully supported and ROS 2 support in progress.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit f5793db.

Getting started

Difficulty
Beginner

Maintenance

Status
Active: a commit in the last 90 days
Newest commit
3 Aug 2026 on main
Latest release
roslibpy v2.0.0 (30 Oct 2025)

Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.

Links

Robots that can run it

No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.

Robotheca lists software as a reference: nothing is hosted or run here, and every fact links to where it was read.