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ruby-nmap
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A Ruby API to nmap, the exploration tool and security / port scanner. Allows automating nmap and parsing nmap XML files.
Run Nmap from Ruby:
require 'nmap/command'
Nmap::Command.run do |nmap|
nmap.connect_scan = true
nmap.service_scan = true
nmap.output_xml = 'scan.xml'
nmap.verbose = true
nmap.ports = [20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 80, 110, 443, 512, 522, 8080, 1080]
nmap.targets = '192.168.1.*'
end
Run sudo nmap from Ruby:
require 'nmap/command'
Nmap::Command.sudo do |nmap|
nmap.syn_scan = true
nmap.os_fingerprint = true
nmap.service_scan = true
nmap.output_xml = 'scan.xml'
nmap.verbose = true
nmap.ports = [20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 80, 110, 443, 512, 522, 8080, 1080]
nmap.targets = '192.168.1.*'
end
Parse Nmap XML scan files:
require 'nmap/xml'
Nmap::XML.open('scan.xml') do |xml|
xml.each_host do |host|
puts "[#{host.ip}]"
host.each_port do |port|
puts " #{port.number}/#{port.protocol}\t#{port.state}\t#{port.service}"
end
end
end
Print NSE script output from an XML scan file:
require 'nmap/xml'
Nmap::XML.open('nse.xml') do |xml|
xml.each_host do |host|
puts "[#{host.ip}]"
host.scripts.each do |name,output|
output.each_line { |line| puts " #{line}" }
end
host.each_port do |port|
puts " [#{port.number}/#{port.protocol}]"
port.scripts.each do |id,script|
puts " [#{id}]"
script.output.each_line { |line| puts " #{line}" }
end
end
end
end
$ sudo apt install nmap
$ sudo dnf install nmap
$ brew install nmap
$ gem install ruby-nmap
See {file:LICENSE.txt} for license information.
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We found that ruby-nmap 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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