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{{Infobox software
| name = Scapy
| logo = File:Scapy_logo.png
| screenshot = Scapy-2.4.3.png
| author = Philippe Biondi<ref name="docs-credits" />
| developer = Philippe Biondi, Guillaume Valadon, Pierre Lalet, Gabriel Potter, Dr. Nils Weiss<ref name="docs-credits">{{cite web|url=https://scapy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/backmatter.html|title=Credits|via=[[Read the Docs]]|publisher=Scapy Project|accessdate=11 January 2019}}</ref>
| latest release version = 2.6.1
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2024|11|05|df=yes}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/secdev/scapy/releases|title=Releases - secdev/scapy|via=[[GitHub]]|accessdate=5 November 2024}}</ref>
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| operating system = [[Cross-platform]].<br/>See [https://repology.org/project/scapy/versions Scapy packaging]
| programming language = [[Python (programming language)|Python]]
| genre = [[Packet generator]]<br/>[[Packet analyzer]]
| license = [[GNU General Public License|GPLv2]]
}}
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'''Scapy''' is a [[packet (information technology)|packet]] manipulation tool for [[computer network]]s,<ref name="pysysadmin">{{cite book
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|first1=Noah
|last2=Jones
|first2=Jeremy M.
|title=Python for Unix and Linux System Administration
|publisher=[[O'Reilly Media]]
|year=2008
|pages=173–176
|isbn=978-0-596-51582-9
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y7RCCgjmowcC
}}</ref><ref name="mob-app-sec">{{cite book
|last1=Dwivedi
|first1=Himanshu
|last2=Clark
|first2=Chris
|last3=Thiel
|first3=David
|title=Mobile Application Security
|publisher=[[McGraw-Hill]]
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|isbn=978-0-07-163356-7
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Iq11Hs6FFm4C
}}</ref> originally written in [[Python (programming language)|Python]] by Philippe Biondi. It can forge or decode [[Network packet|packets]], send them on the wire, capture them, and match requests and replies. It can also handle tasks like scanning, [[traceroute|tracerouting]], probing, [[unit testing|unit tests]], attacks, and [[network detector|network discovery]].
Scapy provides a [[Python (programming language)|Python]] interface into [[pcap|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==
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== External links ==
*{{official website}}
*{{github|secdev/scapy}}
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