visual_traceroute

Simple python script to render traceroute output inside google map.

setup

install python 3.8 or later version.
sign up into https://ipstack.com/ and get your api key.
create a google api key and enable google map js api.
- https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/get-api-key
- https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/library/maps-backend.googleapis.com?q=Google%20Maps%20JavaScript%20API
install traceroute.
pip install -r requirements.txt.

To view the results, simply open the traceroute.html (generated by traceroute.py) in your browser.


$>export IPSTACK_KEY='your ipstack api key'


$>export GMPLOT_KEY='your google api key'


$>python traceroute.py host


$>traceroute host | python traceroute.py


$>traceroute host > route.txt


$>python traceroute.py < route.txt

To view the results, simply open the traceroute.html (generated by traceroute.py) in your browser.

Warning : do not share your traceroute.html, as the google api key is hardcoded inside it by gmplot.