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title: PyPCAPKit
abstract: >-
  PyPCAPKit is a comprehensive, Python-native network packet analysis library: a
  PCAP file extraction, construction and analysis toolkit that dissects protocols
  in more detail than the common extractors do, over a choice of extraction
  engines, and exposes them through a Pythonic interface.
type: software
authors:
  - given-names: Jarry
    family-names: Shaw
    email: jarryshaw@icloud.com
    alias: JarryShaw
repository-code: https://github.com/JarryShaw/PyPCAPKit
url: https://jarryshaw.github.io/PyPCAPKit/
repository-artifact: https://pypi.org/project/pypcapkit/
license: BSD-3-Clause
version: 1.5.0b8
date-released: '2026-10-01'
keywords:
  - network
  - pcap
  - packet