yenie-parser 0.2.0

Small, standalone Cisco CLI parsers derived from Cisco's Genie parsers

Yenie Parser

Yenie Parser is a small Python package for parsing Cisco CLI command output into structured dictionaries without importing the full Cisco Genie/pyATS stack.

The IOS-XE parser set covers command templates adapted from Cisco Genie parser files. Results use Genie-compatible dictionary shapes where the upstream parser defines them.

Install

This package is intended to work with normal Python packaging tools once published:

pip install yenie-parser

For local development with uv:

uv sync
uv run pytest

Usage

import yenie_parser

parsed = yenie_parser.parse(
    platform="iosxe",
    command="show device-tracking database",
    raw_output=raw_cli_output,
)

The parser accepts only raw command output. It does not connect to devices or execute commands.

Command matching strips extra whitespace and is case-insensitive. It does not rewrite Cisco command tokens, so device-tracking and device tracking are different commands.

Available command templates can be inspected with:

commands = yenie_parser.supported_commands("iosxe")

Attribution

Parser behavior is derived from the Apache-2.0 licensed Cisco Genie parser project:

• Repository: https://github.com/CiscoTestAutomation/genieparser
• Source paths:
  • src/genie/libs/parser/iosxe/show_device_tracking.py
  • src/genie/libs/parser/iosxe/show_authentication_sessions.py
  • src/genie/libs/parser/iosxe/show_inventory.py
  • src/genie/libs/parser/iosxe/show_cdp.py
  • src/genie/libs/parser/iosxe/show_arp.py
  • src/genie/libs/parser/iosxe/show_fdb.py
  • src/genie/libs/parser/iosxe/show_interface.py

See docs/conversions/ for conversion metadata.