wifiscan

A platform-independent WiFi scanning library for getting SSID + BSSID + RSSI from nearby access points. It should work on most Linux installations as well as Windows and OS X.

How does it work?

wifiscan works by calling the OS-specific Wifi scan utility and parsing the output. For Linux this is iwlist, for Windows it is netsh.exe and for OS X it is airport. Other systems are not supported at the moment (although, as long as they are Linux-based I believe you can install iwlist).

Install

go get -u github.com/schollz/wifiscan/...

Usage

You can use it in your Go code as:

wifis, err := wifiscan.Scan()
if err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
}
for _, w := range wifis {
    fmt.Println(w.SSID, w.BSSID, w.RSSI)
}

You can also use the command-line tool as:

$ WIFI=wlan0 wifiscan
SSID            BSSID                   RSSI
NOS-618F        2c:a1:7d:69:61:8f       -98
MEO-WiFi        1c:57:3e:28:07:62       -97
MEO-WiFi        1c:57:3e:2b:de:12       -93
MEO-WiFi        58:fc:20:b1:af:a2       -88
...

Note: When using with Linux you will need to add sudo to get a full scan.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. Feel free to...

• Revise documentation
• Add new features
• Fix bugs
• Suggest improvements

License

MIT