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python-nmap 0.2.2

This is a python class to use nmap and access scan results from python3

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python-nmap
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python-nmap is a python library which helps in using nmap port scanner.
It allows to easilly manipulate nmap scan results and will be a perfect
tool for systems administrators who want to automatize scanning task
and reports. It also supports nmap script outputs.

Typical usage looks like::

    #!/usr/bin/env python
    import nmap                         # import nmap.py module
    nm = nmap.PortScanner()         # instantiate nmap.PortScanner object
    nm.scan('127.0.0.1', '22-443')      # scan host 127.0.0.1, ports from 22 to 443
    nm.command_line()                   # get command line used for the scan : nmap -oX - -p 22-443 127.0.0.1
    nm.scaninfo()                       # get nmap scan informations {'tcp': {'services': '22-443', 'method': 'connect'}}
    nm.all_hosts()                      # get all hosts that were scanned
    nm['127.0.0.1'].hostname()          # get hostname for host 127.0.0.1
    nm['127.0.0.1'].state()             # get state of host 127.0.0.1 (up|down|unknown|skipped)
    nm['127.0.0.1'].all_protocols()     # get all scanned protocols ['tcp', 'udp'] in (ip|tcp|udp|sctp)
    nm['127.0.0.1']['tcp'].keys()       # get all ports for tcp protocol
    nm['127.0.0.1'].all_tcp()           # get all ports for tcp protocol (sorted version)
    nm['127.0.0.1'].all_udp()           # get all ports for udp protocol (sorted version)
    nm['127.0.0.1'].all_ip()            # get all ports for ip protocol (sorted version)
    nm['127.0.0.1'].all_sctp()          # get all ports for sctp protocol (sorted version)
    nm['127.0.0.1'].has_tcp(22)         # is there any information for port 22/tcp on host 127.0.0.1
    nm['127.0.0.1']['tcp'][22]          # get infos about port 22 in tcp on host 127.0.0.1
    nm['127.0.0.1'].tcp(22)             # get infos about port 22 in tcp on host 127.0.0.1
    nm['127.0.0.1']['tcp'][22]['state'] # get state of port 22/tcp on host 127.0.0.1 (open


    # a more usefull example :
    for host in nm.all_hosts():
        print('----------------------------------------------------')
        print('Host : %s (%s)' % (host, nm[host].hostname()))
        print('State : %s' % nm[host].state())

        for proto in nm[host].all_protocols():
            print('----------')
            print('Protocol : %s' % proto)

            lport = nm[host][proto].keys()
            lport.sort()
            for port in lport:
                print('port : %s\tstate : %s' % (port, nm[host][proto][port]['state']))


    print('----------------------------------------------------')
    # If you want to do a pingsweep on network 192.168.1.0/24:
    nm.scan(hosts='192.168.1.0/24', arguments='-n -sP -PE -PA21,23,80,3389')
    hosts_list = [(x, nm[x]['status']['state']) for x in nm.all_hosts()]
    for host, status in hosts_list:
        print('{0}:{1}'.format(host, status))


   print '----------------------------------------------------'
   # Asynchronous usage of PortScannerAsync
   nma = nmap.PortScannerAsync()
   def callback_result(host, scan_result):
       print '------------------'
       print host, scan_result
   nma.scan(hosts='192.168.1.0/30', arguments='-sP', callback=callback_result)
   while nma.still_scanning():
       print("Waiting ...")
       nma.wait(2)   # you can do whatever you want but I choose to wait after the end of the scan


Homepage
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http://xael.org/norman/python/python-nmap/


Changelog
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2010/12/17 (v0.2.2)
 - bug in handling nmap_error output (returned value was bin, string was expected)
 - removed test strings form __init__.py file.

2010/12/15 (v0.2.1)
 - corrected bug in __init__.py about scope problem
 - try to find nmap executable in known directories
 - raise AssertionError when trying to call command_line, scaninfo, scanstats, has_host before scanning

2010/12/14 (v0.2.0)
 - Make python-nmap works with Python 3.x
 - Contribution from Brian Bustin <brian at bustin.us>

2010/06/07 (v0.1.4)
Patches from Steve 'Ashcrow' Milner <steve at gnulinux.net>
 - remove shebang from __init__.py as it is not a runnable script
 - allow use with ALPHA and BETA nmap releases
 - .has_key() is deprecated, replaced instances with in
 - move to using the print function for python2 and 3 usage

2010/06/04
 - adding PortScanner.listscan
 - PortScanner.scan now returns scan_result
 - adding class PortScannerAsync (idea from Steve 'Ashcrow' Milner <steve at gnulinux.net>)

2010/06/03
 - Import on google code
   svn checkout https://python-nmap.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ python-nmap --username  XXXXX
 - added PortScanner.scanstats method
 - updated example.py and documentation for pingsweep
 - updated Makefile for generating documentation

2010/03/09
 - Modified packaging. v0.1.1 [norman]

2010/03/08
 - Initial release. v0.1.0 [norman]