pyNetgear provides an easy to use Python API to control your Netgear router. It uses the SOAP-api on modern Netgear routers to communicate. It is built by reverse engineering the requests made by the NETGEAR Genie app.
pyNetgear works with Python 2 and 3.
If you are connected to the network of the Netgear router, a host is optional. If you are connected via a wired connection to the Netgear router, a password is optional. The username defaults to admin.
It currently supports the following operations:
login
Logs in to the router. Will return True or False to indicate success.
get_attached_devices
Returns a list of named tuples describing the device signal, ip, name, mac, type and link_rate.
You can install PyNetgear from PyPi using pip3 install pynetgear (use pip if you're still using Python 2).
To test run from the console:
$ python -m pynetgear [<pass>] [<host>] [<user>]
To use within your Python scripts:
# All three parameters are optional
netgear = Netgear(password, host, username)
for i in netgear.get_attached_devices():
print iIt has been tested with the Netgear R6300 router and the Netgear WNDR4500 router. According to the NETGEAR Genie app description, the following routers should work:
- Netgear R7000
- Netgear R6300
- Netgear R6250
- Netgear R6200
- Netgear R6100
- Netgear Centria (WNDR4700, WND4720)
- Netgear WNDR4500
- Netgear WNDR4300
- Netgear WNDR4000
- Netgear WNDR3800
- Netgear WNDR3700v3
- Netgear WNDR3400v2
- Netgear WNR3500Lv2
- Netgear WNR2200
- Netgear WNR2000v3
- Netgear WNR1500
- Netgear WNR1000v2
- Netgear WNR1000v3
- Netgear WNDRMAC
- Netgear WNR612v2