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Introduction

Introduction

The PyBots library aims to quickly write client bots for communicating with remote hosts in a standardized way using context managers.

The idea is to make creating client bots as easy as this (e.g. with debugging):

from pybots import SampleBot

with SampleBot(ip_address, port, verbose=True) as bot:
    # do some computation
    # communicate with the remote host

Installation

This library is available on PyPi and can be simply installed using Pip via pip install pybots.


Rationale

This library is born from the need of making computations while communicating the results to a remote host with time constraints. Furthermore, rewriting the same lines of code repeatedly for handling the session with the remote host while the computation could hold in only a few lines made scripting this kind of application a huge mess.

Hence, it was interesting to regroup some base features and machinery inside a few classes handling common protocols in a clean and modular way in order to hide the session-side and only let the computation-side for future scripts. This way, some classes could be particularized for handling more specific communications with security-related Web services (e.g. Shodan, Censys) or CTF websites (e.g. RingZer0, Root-Me).


Definitions

In the remainder of this documentation, the following terms are used:

  • Template: The base class that holds non-network-related machinery (e.g. logging).

  • General-purpose bots: The general classes, inheriting from the template, that handles network-related machinery regarding available/built-in Python packages.

  • Specific-purpose bots: The specific classes, inheriting from general classes, that handles more particular protocols.

  • API classes: The classes implementing full API's of Web services, relying on bots.

  • Application-related bots: The particular classes, inheriting from specific classes, that abstract application-level communications with the target hosts.