wtfport 0.1.1

CLI tool to watch system port usage

wtfport

A terminal-based tool that provides developers with an intuitive, human-friendly way to identify, inspect, and interact with processes bound to specific ports on their system.

Features

• Port Lookup: Quickly show details about the process using a specific port
• Process Management: Kill a process running on a port with a simple command
• Cross-Platform Support: Available for macOS, Linux, and Windows
• Colorized Output: Clear, visually appealing terminal output
• Watch Mode: Continuously monitor and update port usage
• Interactive Mode: Simple interface for interacting with processes
• Clipboard Support: Copy process commands directly to clipboard
• Web Server Detection: Quick access to open web servers in browser
• Log Tailing: Ability to detect and tail logs for processes
• Port Statistics: Track and analyze your most frequently used ports
• Notifications: Get alerted when a specific port becomes active

Installation

Using pip

pip install wtfport

Using Homebrew (macOS/Linux)

brew install wtfport

From Source

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/wtfport.git
cd wtfport
pip install -e .

Usage

Basic Commands

Check a specific port:

wtfport 3000

Show all listening ports:

wtfport
# or
wtfport --all

Kill a process on a port:

wtfport 3000 --kill

Monitoring Features

Watch a port for changes:

wtfport 3000 --watch

Get notified when a port becomes active:

wtfport --notify 5000

For Web Developers

Open a web server in browser:

wtfport 3000 --open

Port Statistics and History

View port usage statistics:

wtfport --stats

View detailed history for a specific port:

wtfport --stats-detail 3000

Automation & Scripting

Get JSON output for scripting:

wtfport 3000 --json

Copy the command to clipboard:

wtfport 3000 --copy

Interactive Mode

When running wtfport <port> without additional flags, you'll enter interactive mode where you can:

• Open the port in a browser
• Kill the process
• Copy the command to clipboard
• Tail logs (if available)

Examples

Finding What's Using a Port

$ wtfport 3000

Port 3000 is being used by:
╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│                                                                  │
│ ✓ Process:   node                                                │
│    PID:       1234                                               │
│    Command:   node server.js                                     │
│    User:      yourname                                           │
│    Started:   3m ago                                             │
│                                                                  │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Options:
[O] Open in browser      (http://localhost:3000)
[K] Kill process         (sudo may be required)
[C] Copy command         (to clipboard)
[Q] Quit

Viewing All Listening Ports

$ wtfport

Listening Ports:
┏━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃  Port ┃ Process       ┃   PID ┃ User      ┃ Started     ┃
┡━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│   22  │ sshd          │   122 │ root      │ 4h ago      │
│  443  │ httpd         │   436 │ www       │ 2d ago      │
│ 3000  │ node          │  1234 │ yourname  │ 3m ago      │
│ 5432  │ postgres      │   983 │ postgres  │ 2d ago      │
└───────┴───────────────┴───────┴───────────┴─────────────┘

Tip: run `wtfport <port>` to inspect in detail.

Port Statistics

$ wtfport --stats

Port Usage Statistics:

Tracking data for 15 ports and 7 processes.
Last updated: 2023-06-15T14:30:22.456789

Top Ports:
┏━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃  Port ┃ Access Count ┃ Processes                  ┃ Last Seen    ┃
┡━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ 3000  │ 42           │ node, python, ruby         │ 2023-06-15   │
│ 8080  │ 27           │ java, tomcat               │ 2023-06-14   │
│ 5432  │ 18           │ postgres                   │ 2023-06-15   │
│ 443   │ 15           │ nginx, apache              │ 2023-06-15   │
│ 27017 │ 10           │ mongod                     │ 2023-06-13   │
└───────┴──────────────┴────────────────────────────┴──────────────┘

Top Processes:
┏━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Process   ┃ Access Count ┃ Used Ports                       ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ node      │ 45           │ 3000, 8000, 9000, 4200, 4000     │
│ postgres  │ 18           │ 5432                             │
│ nginx     │ 15           │ 443, 80                          │
│ java      │ 12           │ 8080, 8443                       │
│ mongod    │ 10           │ 27017                            │
└───────────┴──────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘

Tip: Use `wtfport --stats-detail <port>` to see detailed history for a specific port.

Requirements

• Python 3.7 or higher
• Dependencies (automatically installed):
  • typer
  • rich
  • psutil
  • pyperclip

Privacy

wtfport runs completely locally on your machine. The statistics feature stores data only in a local file (~/.wtfport/stats.json) and no data is ever sent outside your computer.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Credits

Created by Hungwa Henry