Cownet

Cownet

I wanted to view my up to date network usage in a easy to read and friendly way. So I built a tool that pulls the data in from netstat <http://linux.die.net/man/8/netstat>, and displays a cleaned up output in Cowsay <http://linux.die.net/man/1/cowsay>.

Setup

This is a Python tool that is presently only built for OSX. To render the output as seen above we use figlet <http://www.figlet.org/>__ and cowsay <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay>__.

$ pip install cownet

Usage

::

$ cownet
                              _
  ___ _____      ___ __   ___| |_
 / __/ _ \ \ /\ / / '_ \ / _ \ __|
| (_| (_) \ V  V /| | | |  __/ |_
 \___\___/ \_/\_/ |_| |_|\___|\__|

 ___________________________________
< Received 173.9 MB / Sent 337.7 MB >
 -----------------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

Low calorie "light" mode

::

    $ cownet -l
    Received 2.4 GB / Sent 2.4 GB

Help
~~~~

::

    $ cownet -h

    usage: Cownet [-h] [-l] [-i INTERFACE] [-d DELAY] [-v]

    optional arguments:
      -h, --help            show this help message and exit
      -l, --light           The low calorie version
      -i INTERFACE, --interface INTERFACE
                            Change the network interface (defaults to en1)
      -d DELAY, --delay DELAY
                            Change the frequency we check your usage data
                            (defaults to 30 seconds)
      -v, --version         show program's version number and exit

License
-------

This tool is protected by the `GNU General Public License
v2 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>`__.

Copyright `Jeffrey Hann <http://jeffreyhann.ca/>`__ 2013