Skip to main content

Scan & report on visible access points (iwlist scan).

Project description

= wifi-scan

Friendly front-end to `iwlist` for wireless network scanning & troubleshooting.


== In action

$ wifi-scan -k channel
+------+---------+-----------+---------+---------------------------------+
| cell | channel | frequency | quality | essid |
+------+---------+-----------+---------+---------------------------------+
| 14 | 1 | 2.412 | 44 | SNewSt2R |
| 7 | 6 | 2.437 | 41 | MOTOROLA-Cxxx4 |
| 8 | 6 | 2.437 | 44 | SomeCleverWiFiName |
| 2 | 8 | 2.447 | 100 | mytroubledwifi |
| 3 | 8 | 2.447 | 100 | dejaloya |
| 9 | 8 | 2.447 | 100 | |
| 10 | 11 | 2.462 | 88 | The Jam 2.4G |
| 1 | 36 | 5.18 | 100 | mytroubledwifi-5GHz |
| 6 | 36 | 5.18 | 44 | DIRECT-C1-HP OfficeJet Pro 9010 |
| 11 | 36 | 5.18 | 44 | |
| 12 | 36 | 5.18 | 44 | yoyoyo |
| 13 | 36 | 5.18 | 44 | XFINITY |
| 15 | 36 | 5.18 | 44 | Lindsey |
| 4 | 48 | 5.24 | 72 | The Jam 5G |
| 5 | 153 | 5.765 | 44 | xfinitywifi |
| 16 | 153 | 5.765 | 44 | thisnetworkisalsohere |
+------+---------+-----------+---------+---------------------------------+


== Install

Using Python v3.8 (or better):

[source,sh]
----
python3 -m pip install wifi-scan
----

As an alternative consider https://pipxproject.github.io/pipx/installation/[pipx]:

[source,sh]
----
pipx install wifi-scan
----

Project details


Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

wifi-scan-0.0.1.tar.gz (3.5 kB view details)

Uploaded Source

Built Distribution

wifi_scan-0.0.1-py3-none-any.whl (4.1 kB view details)

Uploaded Python 3

File details

Details for the file wifi-scan-0.0.1.tar.gz.

File metadata

  • Download URL: wifi-scan-0.0.1.tar.gz
  • Upload date:
  • Size: 3.5 kB
  • Tags: Source
  • Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
  • Uploaded via: python-requests/2.25.1

File hashes

Hashes for wifi-scan-0.0.1.tar.gz
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 99ec659431c75c52d01fa5a463b9c731621a3a25711b4f238dc6ea5db7e3b051
MD5 15d0d99d3c457e96a3d39884e346064e
BLAKE2b-256 9a3c94270c5053d52868ba522ea14dc7c5832116882fbeb62fcf1138475a6646

See more details on using hashes here.

File details

Details for the file wifi_scan-0.0.1-py3-none-any.whl.

File metadata

  • Download URL: wifi_scan-0.0.1-py3-none-any.whl
  • Upload date:
  • Size: 4.1 kB
  • Tags: Python 3
  • Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
  • Uploaded via: python-requests/2.25.1

File hashes

Hashes for wifi_scan-0.0.1-py3-none-any.whl
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 0a45eebcc83beb1b4747f591b524a55e915f9e954bd96cc89c2029043853300b
MD5 46fa93d48f7b8471f23e1d894515749f
BLAKE2b-256 64a1770e7d59a4902b4fdc55522bcc202db57b57b6954a544c67e37ce7897a26

See more details on using hashes here.

Supported by

AWS AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Datadog Monitoring Fastly Fastly CDN Google Google Download Analytics Microsoft Microsoft PSF Sponsor Pingdom Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Sentry Error logging StatusPage StatusPage Status page