Analyzing networking traffic using the pyshark library

We can use the pyshark library to analyze the network traffic in Python, since everything Wireshark decodes in each packet is made available as a variable. We can find the source code of the tool in GitHub's repository: https://github.com/KimiNewt/pyshark.

In the PyPI repository, we can find the last version of the library, that is, https://pypi.org/project/pyshark, and we can install it with the pip install pyshark command.

In the documentation of the module, we can see that the main package for opening and analyzing a pcap file is capture.file_capture:

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