node-wifi

node-wifi

The node-wifi module allows mac, windows and linux users to interact with surrounding wifi networks through various methods.

These methods include scanning for wifi access points and connecting to these access points.

We wish to be clear in saying that this module is inspired from node-wifi-control but with some slight modifications to certain functions such as the various OS-specific parsers for terminal output as we noticed that these parsers did not work well on certain operating systems.

The module only manages :

• Connect for linux
• Scan for linux
• Connect for mac
• Scan for mac
• Connect for windows
• Scan for windows

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Install

// Use as a module
npm install node-wifi 

// Use as a binary
npm install node-wifi -g

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Getting started

var wifi = require('node-wifi');

//Initialize wifi module
wifi.init({
    debug : true,
    iface : null
    // the OS will find the right network interface if it is null  
});

//Scan networks
wifi.scan(function(err, networks) {

    if (err) {
        console.log(err);
    } else {
        console.log(networks);
    }
});

//Connect to a network
wifi.connect({ ssid : "ssid", password : "password"}, function(err) {
    if (err) {
        console.log(err);
    }
    console.log('Connected');
}); 

Use as binary

wifi --scan 

wifi --connect --ssid <ssid> --password <password> [--iface <wlan0>]