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🐍 i2plib: A modern asynchronous library for building I2P applications

i2plib

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i2plib is a modern asynchronous library for building I2P applications.

Installing

::

pip install i2plib

Requirements:

  • Python version >= 3.5
  • I2P router with SAM API enabled

Connecting to a remote I2P destination

.. code-block:: python

import asyncio
import i2plib

async def connect_test(destination):
    session_name = "test-connect"

    # create a SAM stream session
    await i2plib.create_session(session_name)

    # connect to a destination
    reader, writer = await i2plib.stream_connect(session_name, destination)

    # write data to a socket
    writer.write(b"PING")

    # asynchronously receive data
    data = await reader.read(4096)
    print(data.decode())

    # close the connection
    writer.close()

# run event loop
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(connect_test("dummy.i2p"))
loop.stop()

Accept connections in I2P

.. code-block:: python

import asyncio
import i2plib

async def accept_test():
    session_name = "test-accept"

    # create a SAM stream session
    await i2plib.create_session(session_name)

    # accept a connection
    reader, writer = await i2plib.stream_accept(session_name)
    
    # first string on a client connection always contains clients I2P destination
    dest = await reader.readline()
    remote_destination = i2plib.Destination(dest.decode().strip())

    # read for the actual incoming data from the client
    data = await reader.read(4096)

    print(data.decode())

    # send data back
    writer.write(b"PONG")

    # close the connection
    writer.close()

# run event loop
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(accept_test())
loop.stop()

Server tunnel

Expose a local service to I2P like that:

.. code-block:: python

import asyncio
import i2plib

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
# making your local web server available in the I2P network
tunnel = i2plib.ServerTunnel(("127.0.0.1", 80))
asyncio.ensure_future(tunnel.run())

try:
    loop.run_forever()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    pass
finally:
    loop.close()

Client tunnel

Bind a remote I2P destination to a port on your local host:

.. code-block:: python

import asyncio
import i2plib

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
# bind irc.echelon.i2p to 127.0.0.1:6669
tunnel = i2plib.ClientTunnel("irc.echelon.i2p", ("127.0.0.1", 6669))
asyncio.ensure_future(tunnel.run())

try:
    loop.run_forever()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    pass
finally:
    loop.close()

More examples

You can see more demo applications in docs/examples directory of the source repository.

Resources

  • i2plib online documentation_
  • Invisible Internet Project_
  • SAM API documentation_
  • Python asyncio documentation_

.. _i2plib online documentation: https://i2plib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ .. _Invisible Internet Project: https://geti2p.net/en/ .. _SAM API documentation: https://geti2p.net/en/docs/api/samv3 .. _Python asyncio documentation: https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html

Aknowledgments

  • i2p.socket, drop in python socket module that uses i2p_
  • txi2p, I2P bindings for Twisted_
  • leaflet, Dead simple I2P SAM library, written in Python 3_

.. _i2p.socket, drop in python socket module that uses i2p: https://github.com/majestrate/i2p.socket .. _txi2p, I2P bindings for Twisted: https://github.com/str4d/txi2p .. _leaflet, Dead simple I2P SAM library, written in Python 3: https://github.com/MuxZeroNet/leaflet