peacap

Peacap

Cross-platform Python-based NPM module for sniffing system-wide TCP packets.

Prerequisites   ·   Installation   ·   Usage   ·   Contribute

Prerequisites

• You must have Python installed, and available at the python command on Windows, and python3 on Windows & Linux.
• If scapy, the dependent python library isn't successfully installed when you install the peacap dependency, you can optionally install scapy using pip.

Installation

Simply install using your favourite Node.js package manager.

yarn add peacap

npm install peacap

Usage

Usage is simple, simply instantiate the PacketSniffer constructor, and observe.

import { PacketSniffer } from "peacap";

const sniffer = new PacketSniffer();
sniffer.on("packet", console.log);
/**
 * {
 *   source: "10.0.0.2",
 *   destination: "10.0.0.3",
 *   outgoing: true,
 *   size: 420,
 *   packet: <Buffer 00 00 00 ...>
 * }
 */

Contribute

Feel free to contribute to the repository. Pull requests and issues with feature requests are super welcome!