wifi-scanner
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A command line tool for scanning nearby Wi-Fi networks using Node.js
npm install -g wifi-scanner
Install wifi-scanner globally using npm install -g wifi-scanner.
Run wifi-scanner with the desired options on your terminal.
| Short Version Command | Long Version Command | Description |
|---|---|---|
| -h | --help | output usage information |
| -V | --version | output the version number |
| -i | --interface [interfaceName] | Capture interface. Defaults to 'wlan0'. (CASE-SENSITIVE) |
| -p | (Optional) Print results to the console. | |
| -o | --output [filename] | (Optional) Output filename. (CASE-SENSITIVE) |
| -c | --criteria [criteria] | (Optional) Criteria to filter. Example: 'security'. (CASE-SENSITIVE) |
| -s | --sortCriteria [criteria] | (Optional) Sort results according to a specified criteria. |
| -a | --ascending | (Optional) Sort results ascendingly. (DEFAULT) |
| -d | --descending | (Optional) Sort results descendingly. |
| -f | --filter [result] | (Optional) Desired result for specified criteria. Example: 'wep'. (CASE-SENSITIVE) |
| -r | --retry | (Optional) Should retry until it finds a result matching the specified filter. |
| -t | --timeout | (Optional) Retry interval (millisseconds). Defaults to 1000. |
Searches for every WEP network and sorts them descendingly by their signal:
wifi-scanner -c security -f wep -s signal -d
Searches for every WEP network each 5000ms until it finds one.
wifi-scanner -r -t 5000 -c security -f wep
Gets every nearby network, prints the results to the console and saves them into a networks.json file.
wifi-scanner -p -o networks.json
Gets every nearby network using the ath0 interface.
wifi-scanner -i ath0
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| address | MAC adres |
| channel | Broadcast channel |
| frequency | Broadcast frequency |
| mode | Mode |
| quality | Network quality |
| signal | Signal level |
| ssid | SSID |
| security | Security (wpa, wep, wpa2) |
Feel free to contribute in any way you want. Every help is valid. If you find any issues or even if you have a suggestion please feel free to report it using our issue tracker.
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FAQs
Wireless networks scanner.
The npm package wifi-scanner receives a total of 4 weekly downloads. As such, wifi-scanner popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that wifi-scanner demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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