pingparser

pingparser parses the output of the system ping or ping6 command.

Usage

You can pipe ping command output into pingparser.py on the command line, which outputs the parsed result to stdout in a customizable output format (see ./pingparser.py --help for details):

$ ping -c 5 www.google.com | ./pingparser.py '+%h %s %r %p %m %M %a'
www.l.google.com 5 5 0 14.711 26.378 19.621

Or in Python you can call pingparser.parse(ping_output), which returns a dictionary containing the parsed fields:

>>> import pingparser
>>> from collections import OrderedDict
>>> results = pingparser.parse('''
... PING www.l.google.com (74.125.225.84) 56(84) bytes of data.
... 64 bytes from 74.125.225.84: icmp_req=1 ttl=55 time=13.9 ms
... 64 bytes from 74.125.225.84: icmp_req=2 ttl=55 time=21.4 ms
...
... --- www.l.google.com ping statistics ---
... 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 5072ms
... rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 13.946/17.682/21.418/3.736 ms''')
>>> OrderedDict(sorted(results.items()))
OrderedDict([('avgping', '17.682'), ('host', 'www.l.google.com'), ('jitter', '3.736'), ('maxping', '21.418'), ('minping', '13.946'), ('packet_loss', '0'), ('received', '2'), ('sent', '2')])

Installing

Download the source and run:

$ python setup.py install

Tests

To run the tests, first install tox:

$ pip install tox

then run tox from the project root directory:

$ tox