List information about hosts in a Nessus scan

list_nessus_hosts.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import argparse

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("nessusfile")
args = parser.parse_args()

nessus = ET.parse(args.nessusfile)
nessusroot = nessus.getroot()

for host in nessusroot.iter('ReportHost'):
    name = host.attrib["name"]
    ip = "Unknown"
    netbios = "Unknown"
    os = "Unknown"

    for tag in host.iter('tag'):
        if tag.attrib['name'] == 'operating-system':
            os = tag.text.replace("\n","/")
        if tag.attrib['name'] == 'host-ip':
            ip = tag.text
        if tag.attrib['name'] == 'netbios-name':
            netbios = tag.text

    print("{}|{}|{}|{}".format(name,netbios,ip,os))