I wanted to view my up to date network usage in a easy to read and friendly way. So I built a tool that pulls the data in from netstat, and displays a cleaned up output in Cowsay.
Project description
I wanted to view my up to date network usage in a easy to read and friendly way. So I built a tool that pulls the data in from netstat, and displays a cleaned up output in Cowsay.
Setup
This is a Python tool that is presently only built for OSX. To render the output as seen above we use figlet and cowsay.
$ pip install cownet
Usage
$ cownet
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___ _____ ___ __ ___| |_
/ __/ _ \ \ /\ / / '_ \ / _ \ __|
| (_| (_) \ V V /| | | | __/ |_
\___\___/ \_/\_/ |_| |_|\___|\__|
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< Received 173.9 MB / Sent 337.7 MB >
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\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
Low calorie “light” mode
$ cownet -l Received 2.4 GB / Sent 2.4 GB
Help
$ cownet -h
usage: Cownet [-h] [-l] [-i INTERFACE] [-d DELAY] [-v]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-l, --light The low calorie version
-i INTERFACE, --interface INTERFACE
Change the network interface (defaults to en1)
-d DELAY, --delay DELAY
Change the frequency we check your usage data
(defaults to 30 seconds)
-v, --version show program's version number and exit
License
This tool is protected by the GNU General Public License v2.
Copyright Jeffrey Hann 2013
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