Python client library for FauxAPI available on PyPi

[ndj]

Recently pushed PyPi package pfsense-fauxapi that implements a client-side wrapper to the pfSense-FauxAPI package.

Install using pip:-

pip3 install pfsense-fauxapi

Check it out here:-
https://github.com/ndejong/pfsense_fauxapi_client_python

The pip package additionally wraps the Python interface as a command-line tool thus making FauxAPI calls to pfSense even easier, for example:-

$ fauxapi --host 192.168.1.200 gateway_status | jq .
{
  "callid": "5c8d0f7361cba",
  "action": "gateway_status",
  "message": "ok",
  "data": {
    "gateway_status": {
      "10.10.10.1": {
        "monitorip": "10.10.10.1",
        "srcip": "10.10.10.200",
        "name": "WAN_DHCP",
        "delay": "0.422ms",
        "stddev": "0.073ms",
        "loss": "0.0%",
        "status": "none"
      }
    }
  }
}

The Python client library and the command-line tool support the full set of FauxAPI calls:-

• alias_update_urltables
• config_backup
• config_backup_list
• config_get
• config_patch
• config_reload
• config_restore
• config_set
• function_call
• gateway_status
• interface_stats
• rule_get
• send_event
• system_reboot
• system_stats

There are now four client-side implementations for FauxAPI to choose from:-

• Python: https://github.com/ndejong/pfsense_fauxapi_client_python
• NodeJS: https://github.com/Elucidia/faux-api-client
• PHP: https://github.com/travisghansen/pfsense_fauxapi_php_client
• Shell/Bash: https://github.com/ndejong/pfsense_fauxapi_client_bash