Top 3 Python network-discovery Projects

scapy

26 10,028 9.3 Python

Scapy: the Python-based interactive packet manipulation program & library. Supports Python 2 & Python 3.

Project mention: Seven Python Projects to Elevate Your Coding Skills | dev.to | 2024-02-15

Example Network Scanner Scapy

IVRE

6 3,301 8.0 Python

Network recon framework. Build your own, self-hosted and fully-controlled alternatives to Shodan / ZoomEye / Censys and GreyNoise, run your Passive DNS service, collect and analyse network intelligence from your sensors, and much more! Uses Nmap, Masscan, Zeek, p0f, etc.
InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
what-vpn

1 59 3.4 Python

Identify servers running various SSL VPNs based on protocol-specific behaviors

Project mention: Actual SSH over HTTPS | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-23

From the article:
> Ubiquitous presence of HTTPS allows you to pass your data through very restrictive middle boxes!
This is, in fact, why all — or nearly all — proprietary VPN protocols (so-called "SSL VPNs") implement a mode that initiates a tunnel via HTTPS, at least as a fallback if not as the primary mode of operation: precisely in order to have a mode of operation that works with almost any connection to the global Internet.
I'm one of the main developers of https://gitlab.com/openconnect/openconnect, which implements many such protocols, and wrote https://github.com/dlenski/what-vpn, which sniffs or identifies even more flavors of TLS-based VPN servers.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).