Python simple arp table reader¶

Python simple arp table reader

Free software: BSD license
Documentation: https://python_arptable.readthedocs.org.

Features¶

Export ARP Table on linux as a dictionary.

Usage¶

arp_table exports two main things:

ARPTABLE constant, as it was when the package was imported
get_arp_table() function, returning latest arp table.

>>> from arp_table import ARPTABLE
>>> print(ARPTABLE)

[{'Device': 'eth0',
  'Flags': '0x2',
  'HW address': '00:12:79:d2:b9:67',
  'HW type': '0x1',
  'IP address': '10.3.0.1',
  'Mask': '*'}]

>>> from arp_table import get_arp_table
>>> print(get_arp_table())

[{'Device': 'eth0',
  'Flags': '0x2',
  'HW address': '00:12:79:d2:b9:67',
  'HW type': '0x1',
  'IP address': '10.3.0.1',
  'Mask': '*'}]

Disclaimer¶

This is a small, simple yet quite useful library. I’ve seen a lot of posts of people struggling with arp-table reading in python.

With this library, you can just

pip install arp_table

and enjoy!