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A simple python wifi scanner for OSX using OSX's airport command line utility. Returns Mac Addresses and RSSI
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| from subprocess import check_output | |
| import re | |
| def scan_networks(): | |
| airport = '/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport -s' | |
| rc = check_output(airport, shell=True).split('\n')[1:-1] | |
| networks =[] | |
| for i in rc: | |
| i = i.lstrip().rstrip() | |
| mac = re.search(r'([0-9A-F]{2}[:-]){5}([0-9A-F]{2})', i, re.I).group() | |
| rssi = re.search(r'\-(\d)\w+', i, re.I).group() | |
| networks.append([mac, int(rssi)]) | |
| return networks |
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With additional regex SSID, channel and security etc. can also be extracted