Extract GPS from Kismet log with ElementTree

admin — Mon, 23 May 2005 21:58:45 +0000

I have read a lot of noise about ElementTree but never really used it. Tonight i need to extract a bunch of GPS data from a kismet log file. Let’s give it a try

from elementtree import ElementTree

data = open('Kismet-May-22-2005-4.xml','r').read()

detection = ElementTree.XML(data)

for node in detection.getchildren():
try:
print "SSID: " + node.find('SSID').text,
except AttributeError:pass  #hidden SSID
print "BSSID: " +  node.find('BSSID').text,
gps = node.find('gps-info')
print "Lon: " + gps.find('max-lon').text +  " Lat: "  + gps.find('max-lat').text

Really simple, and seems to offer really good speed. I now have another weapon for every day work.

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Extract GPS from Kismet log with ElementTree