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.

Traceroute results

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

Run

$>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


Traceroute results

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.