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Fritz!box logs

A library that aims to parse logs from a Fritz!Box routers.

This crate as a library is basically a function that loads a text log into memory in a structured manner.

Obtaining logs

To load the current logs from your fritz!box router you can use a simple python module like fritzconnection. Here's a one-liner for it (on linux):

% python -c "from fritzconnection import FritzConnection; \
             from getpass import getpass; \
             conn = FritzConnection(password=getpass()); \
             logs = conn.call_action('DeviceInfo:1', 'GetDeviceLog'); \
             print(logs['NewDeviceLog'])" > logs.txt

It will ask you for your password (i.e. the one you enter to access the router via web browser) and save all available logs to the 'logs.txt' file.

Why?

Well, I used to have some serious issues with my ISP and I needed to run some logs analysis. First of all, I've discovered that this router doesn't have a persistent storage for its logs (sick). I never expected anything like that, seriously. Second of all, I had to do the analysis by hand (like how often a recconection happen). So I realized that I have to make my own way out of the XVIII century and created this simple tool. (Un)fortunately I didn't have to examine the logs since I've started to work on the tool so it's development is not running as fast anymore and I haven't implemented any real analysis so far, but I totally realize it is only a matter of time when I need it again, so I'll be working on the crate until it provides some basic statistics functions at the very least.