MacToManufacturer

A simple python library to find the manufacturer of a device by using macaddress.

How to use:

Example:

from MacToManufacturer import MacToMan

macToManObj = MacToMan()
results = macToManObj.search("A8-93-4A-DA-6F-19")
print(results)

You can also pass the macaddress seprated by ":"

from MacToManufacturer import MacToMan

macToManObj = MacToMan()
results = macToManObj.search("A8:93:4A:DA:6F:19")
print(results)

Installation:

pip3 install MacToManufacturer

How does this work?

This library contains csv file which contains the starting 3 octlets and the manufacturer. MacToMan searches through this csv file and returns the manufacturer.

How the csv is generated?

Wireshark has a file which contains all the IEEE lists of mac addresses and manufacturers & more. The file is names manuf. There is a script named as generate_csv.py in script/, It downloads the latest manuf file and converts it to a csv file.