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popularity
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GitHub Stars: 293
Forks: 74
Contributors: 20

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Release Date: Sep 12, 2022
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Maintenance

Inactive

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Open Issues: 35
Open PR: 3
Last Release: 2 years ago
Last Commit: 1 year ago

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Community

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Readme: Yes
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: No
Contributors: 20
Funding: No

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Python Versions Compatibility: Unspecified

Age: 11 years
Latest Release: 2 years ago
Dependencies: N/A
Versions: 13
Maintainers: 3
Wheels: No

Readme

Python PCAP module

Attention this project is currently unmaintained. If you would like to help with maitaining it please reach out (see: https://github.com/pynetwork/pypcap/issues/106)!

|travis| Read the Docs __

This is a simplified object-oriented Python wrapper for libpcap - the current tcpdump.org version, and the WinPcap port for Windows.

Example use #1::

&gt;&gt;&gt; import pcap
&gt;&gt;&gt; sniffer = pcap.pcap(name=None, promisc=True, immediate=True, timeout_ms=50)
&gt;&gt;&gt; addr = lambda pkt, offset: '.'.join(str(ord(pkt[i])) for i in range(offset, offset + 4))
&gt;&gt;&gt; for ts, pkt in sniffer:
...     print('%d\tSRC %-16s\tDST %-16s' % (ts, addr(pkt, sniffer.dloff + 12), addr(pkt, sniffer.dloff + 16)))
...

Example use #2::

Listing Interfaces

&gt;&gt;&gt; import pcap
&gt;&gt;&gt; print ("Interfaces:\n" + '\n'.join(pcap.findalldevs()))

Windows notes

WinPcap has compatibility issues with Windows 10, therefore it's recommended to use Npcap _ (Nmap's packet sniffing library for Windows, based on the WinPcap/Libpcap libraries, but with improved speed, portability, security, and efficiency). Please enable WinPcap API-compatible mode during the library installation.

Installation

This package requires:

libpcap-dev
python-dev

To install run::

pip install pypcap

Installation from sources


Please clone the sources and run::

    python setup.py install

Note for Windows users: Please download the `Npcap SDK `_, unpack the archive and put it into the sibling directory as ``wpdpack`` (``setup.py`` will discover it).

Sample procedure in PowerShell::

    cd ..
    wget -usebasicparsing -outfile npcap-sdk-0.1.zip https://nmap.org/npcap/dist/npcap-sdk-0.1.zip
    Expand-Archive -LiteralPath npcap-sdk-0.1.zip
    mv npcap-sdk-0.1\npcap-sdk-0.1 wpdpack
    cd pypcap
    python setup.py install


Support
-------

Visit https://github.com/pynetwork/pypcap for help!

.. |travis| image:: https://img.shields.io/travis/pynetwork/pypcap.svg
   :target: https://travis-ci.org/pynetwork/pypcap


Development notes
-----------------

Regenerating C code
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The project uses Cython to generate the C code, it's recommended to install it from sources: https://github.com/cython/cython

To regenerate code please use::

    cython pcap.pyx


Building docs
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

To build docs you need the following additional dependencies::

    pip install sphinx mock sphinxcontrib.napoleon

Please use `build_sphinx` task to regenerate the docs::

    python setup.py build_sphinx

FAQs

What is pypcap?

pypcap -- Python interface to pcap a packet capture library. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for pypcap, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is pypcap popular?

The python package pypcap receives a total of 114,090 weekly downloads. As such, pypcap popularity was classified as a popular. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is pypcap well maintained?

We found indications that pypcap is an Inactive project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is pypcap safe to use?

The python package pypcap was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

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