Continuous Sniffing with Stop Trigger

[ryankshah]

Hi all!

I am currently aiming to use this library to do a live capture of some traffic related to a program I'm writing. Inherently, the program does some network related actions and the task at hand is akin to the following:

Start tshark recording, i.e. via:

capture = pyshark.LiveCapture(interface='wlan0', output_file='path/to/file');
capture.sniff_continuously()

Do some actions which impact network traffic
Stop recording
Repeat

However, from the documentation this seems unclear as to whether it can be accomplished or not!

Any tips/advice on how I could achieve this would be great, thanks!

[KimiNewt]

If you use apply_on_packets rather than sniff_continuously then you can give a callback which can raise StopCapture to stop the capture. Then you can call capture.close() and reopen it