How to control Wireshark using python? How to click/press the buttons in Wireshark using python

Question

I want to capture pcap (logs) in Wireshark using python, so basically I have to launch Wireshark though Python script which can be achieved using subprocess.call() or os.system() or os.startfile(). Now how to select the interface [ Wi-Fi,Ethernet] using python and after selecting interface how to save the capture using python? (click on the stop capturing packets button in taskbar -> click on 'file' in taskbar -> click on 'save as'-> give the filename -> give the location-> save）

I don't want to use pyshark, i want to capture packet using Wireshark only .

Thank you

Answer 1

I sense an X Y problem. UI is meant for a User, not to be manipulated programmatically.

Instead take a look at....

Wireshark Tools

tshark

tshark - Dump and analyze network traffic

TShark is a network protocol analyzer. It lets you capture packet data from a live network, or read packets from a previously saved capture file, either printing a decoded form of those packets to the standard output or writing the packets to a file. TShark's native capture file format is pcap format

dumpcap

dumpcap - Dump network traffic

Dumpcap is a network traffic dump tool. It lets you capture packet data from a live network and write the packets to a file. Dumpcap's default capture file format is pcapng format. When the -P option is specified, the output file is written in the pcap format.

Fiddler (See comments)

fiddler.exe

Fiddler supports a variety of command line arguments that control various options:

Fiddler Command-Line Help Usage:

fiddler.exe [options] [FileToLoad.saz]

Other

tcpdump (Most of the above are based on this or use this)

This is the official web site of tcpdump, a powerful command-line packet analyzer; and libpcap, a portable C/C++ library for network traffic capture.