aioping is a fast asyncio implementation of ICMP (ping) protocol.

Installation

aioping requires Python 3.5 and is not yet available on PyPI. Use pip to install it:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/stellarbit/aioping

Using aioping

There are 2 ways to use the library.

First one is interactive, which prints results to the stdout. Please make sure you are running this code under root, as only root is allowed to send ICMP packets:

import asyncio
import aioping

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(aioping.verbose_ping("google.com"))

Alternatively, you can call a ping function, which returns a ping delay in milliseconds or throws an exception in case of error:

import asyncio
import aioping

async def do_ping(host):
    try:
        delay = await aioping.ping(host)
        print("Ping response in %s ms" % delay)

    except TimeoutError:
        print("Timed out")

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(do_ping("google.com"))

Credits

• Original Version from Matthew Dixon Cowles: ftp://ftp.visi.com/users/mdc/ping.py
• Rewrite by Jens Diemer: http://www.python-forum.de/post-69122.html#69122
• Rewrite by Samuel Stauffer: https://github.com/samuel/python-ping
• Rewrite by Anton Belousov / Stellarbit LLC <anton@stellarbit.com> http://github.com/stellarbit/aioping

License

aioping is licensed under GPLv2.