Simple python script to receive death counts of a minecraft server in json

gistfile1.py

#!/usr/bin/python
print "Content-Type: application/json"
print

from nbt import * # https://github.com/twoolie/NBT
import json

nbtfile = nbt.NBTFile("/complete/path/to/world/data/scoreboard.dat", 'rb')
deaths=dict()
for tag in nbtfile["data"]["PlayerScores"]:
  if str(tag["Objective"]) == "deaths": #Assuming the objective keeping track of the deaths is called "deaths"
    deaths[str(tag["Name"])] = int(str(tag["Score"]))
deaths = sorted(deaths.items(), key=lambda x:x[1])
deaths.reverse()
print json.dumps(deaths)