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pypcap - python libpcap module, forked from code.google.com/p/pypcap
https://github.com/pynetwork/pypcap

networking packet-capture pcap

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pypcap - python libpcap module, forked from code.google.com/p/pypcap

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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::

>>> import pcap
>>> sniffer = pcap.pcap(name=None, promisc=True, immediate=True, timeout_ms=50)
>>> addr = lambda pkt, offset: '.'.join(str(ord(pkt[i])) for i in range(offset, offset + 4))
>>> 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

>>> import pcap
>>> 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
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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