Scapy

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Scapy
Original author(s) Philippe Biondi [1]
Developer(s) Gabriel Potter (Lead), Dr. Nils Weiss, Guillaume Valadon, Pierre Lalet [1]
Stable release
2.6.1 / 5 November 2024;10 months ago (2024-11-05) [2]
Repository
Written in Python
Operating system Cross-platform.
See Scapy packaging
Type Packet generator
Packet analyzer
License GPLv2
Website scapy.net   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Scapy is a packet manipulation tool for computer networks, [3] [4] originally written in Python by Philippe Biondi. It can forge or decode packets, send them on the wire, capture them, and match requests and replies. It can also handle tasks like scanning, tracerouting, probing, unit tests, attacks, and network discovery.

Scapy provides a Python interface into libpcap or native raw sockets, in a similar way to that in which Wireshark provides a view and capture GUI. It differs by supporting packet injection, custom packet formats and scripting. While it is a command-line only tool, it can still interface with a number of other programs to provide visualisation including Wireshark, GnuPlot for providing graphs, graphviz or VPython for interactive displaying, etc.

Starting with 2.4.0, Scapy supports Python 2.7 and 3.4+. It must not be confused with "scapy3k" (now renamed Kamene), which is an outdated independent and unmaintained fork.

References

  1. 1 2 "Credits". Scapy Project. Retrieved 27 September 2025– via Read the Docs.
  2. ↑ "Releases - secdev/scapy" . Retrieved 5 November 2024– via GitHub.
  3. ↑ Gift, Noah; Jones, Jeremy M. (2008). Python for Unix and Linux System Administration. O'Reilly Media. pp. 173–176. ISBN   978-0-596-51582-9.
  4. ↑ Dwivedi, Himanshu; Clark, Chris; Thiel, David (2010). Mobile Application Security. McGraw-Hill. p. 384. ISBN   978-0-07-163356-7.


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