host-inspector 0.2.3

A simple python package to gather host information from Windows, Mac and Linux. Returns host data as dicts to be used internally or sent to front-end dashboard applications as JSON.

Host Info

Overview

A simple python package to gather host information from Windows, Mac and Linux. Returns host data as dicts to be used internally or sent to front-end dashboard applications as JSON.

Installation

Install Host Info:

python3 -m pip install host-inspector

Development

To get a list of all commands with descriptions simply run make.

make env
make pip_install_editable

Testing

make pytest
make coverage
make open_coverage

Issues

If you experience any issues, please create an issue on Github.

Example Usage

from host_inspector import get_device_info
from host_inspector import get_health_info

print(get_device_info())
print(get_health_info())

# You can also call individual methods:
from host_inspector import get_cpu_info
from host_inspector import get_datetime_info
from host_inspector import get_disk_info
from host_inspector import get_gpu_info
from host_inspector import get_mem_info
from host_inspector import get_network_info
from host_inspector import get_os_info
from host_inspector import get_platform_info
from host_inspector import get_uptime_info

History

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. This project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

0.1.0 (2025-08-06)

• First release

0.1.1 (2025-09-04)

• ADDED: Support for getting Windows Firewall status and rules

0.2.0 (2025-09-09)

• CHANGED: get_device_info now returns a displays key which is a list of connected displays
• CHANGED: get_gpu_info now returns a list of dicts (one for each GPU)
• ADDED: get_display_info returns a list of dicts (one for each display)
• CHANGED: For backawards compatability, when calling get_device_info, the gpu key will be an object if only one GPU detected.

0.2.1 (2025-09-23)

• ADDED: Support for getting Linux Firewall status and rules using ufw.

0.2.2 (2025-09-25)

• CHANGED: Standardize date/time formatting for device uptime and local_datetime

0.2.3 (2025-10-07)

• CHANGED: Ensure tests pass on Ubuntu (not all data available - yet)