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node-wifi-scanner
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#node-wifi-scanner
This module for node.js scans available wifi networks. The main purpose was to enhance my node.js based ZigBee Site Survey Tool with WiFi coexistence charts. This tool claims to be compatible with current versions of Mac OS-X, Windows and Linux so I'll fix bugs as fast as possible. Feature extensions on the other hand are not planned.
The module was inspired from Maurice Sways "node-wifiscanner". I didn't use node-wifiscanner because I had to handle much more complex network environments and also wanted to be independent of the operating system language. The adaptions needed would have been too comprehensive for a pull request so I decided to write an own module.
It was tested with the following operating systems:
npm i node-wifi-scanner
Run the script scan
in the bin folder.
const scanner = require('node-wifi-scanner');
scanner.scan((err, networks) => {
if (err) {
console.error(err);
return;
}
console.log(networks);
});
The tool returns an array with objects, each object representing a network with the following properties:
In contrary to other wifi scanners no information about security is returned. This is due to the very different implementation of the command line tools which do not allow a flawless detection.
The module uses command line tools for gathering the network information:
airport -s
netsh wlan show networks mode=Bssid
iwlist scan
Unfortunately, Mac OS-X and Windows use the system language for the output which requires a quite generic way of parsing the data. If you experience any troubles, please create a GitHub issue and supply the output of the tool.
There is no such thing as perfect software and this is all the more true when the tools used require different access rights depending on the operating system. Please note the following restrictions before using this tool in a productive system.
Linux: iwlist does only return all found networks if run as sudo! Otherwise you'll get only the network you're connected to.
Windows: there are some network cards which do not return the MAC address and other parameters of the found networks. In this case the "found" networks are ignored as there is no valuable data. If you have this effect on your system, please provide as many information about your system (PC manufacturer, network card, OS,...) as available. Thanks
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2016 Christian Kuster
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node.js module for WiFi network detection
The npm package node-wifi-scanner receives a total of 71 weekly downloads. As such, node-wifi-scanner popularity was classified as not popular.
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