wifi_scan
Intro
This is a fork of wifiscanner, a crate to list WiFi hotspots in your area.
This fork moves wifiscanner away from using command line utilities that can't be relied on.
Use versions 0.6.* if you want a drop-in replacement for the original crate.
Full documentation can be found here.
I started developing this project during Midnight Hackathon organised by Hack Club.
Supported Operating Systems
| ✅ Fully working | ⚠️ Partially working | 🛠️ Planned |
| Operating System | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| macOS | ⚠️ | requires location access to show bssid and ssid |
| Linux | ✅ | |
| Windows | ✅ | |
| OpenBSD | ✅ | wpa3-enterprise networks cannot be detected as such |
| FreeBSD | 🛠️ | |
| Android | 🛠️ |
Usage
This crate is on crates.io and can be
used by adding wifi_scan to the dependencies in your project's Cargo.toml.
[]
= "0.7.*"
Example
use wifi_scan;
println!;
Alternatively if you've cloned the Git repo, you can run the above example
using: cargo run --example scan.
Changelog
- 0.7.1 - added full support for OpenBSD
- 0.7.0 - changed api for scan function. also added other functions. more details in the docs.
- 0.6.3 - switch to using
corewlanon macOS due to the removal of theairportutility - 0.6.2 - stop relying on
netshutility on windows - 0.6.1 - support for multiple wifi adapters on linux
- 0.6.0 - remove
iwdependency for linux - 0.5.1 - crates.io metadata update
- 0.5.0 - add window support (props to @brianjaustin)
- 0.4.0 - replace iwlist with iw (props to @alopatindev)
- 0.3.6 - crates.io metadata update
- 0.3.5 - remove hardcoded path for iwlist (props to @alopatindev)
- 0.3.4 - initial stable release
How to contribute
see CONTRIBUTING.md
Contributors
wifi_scan would not be possible without the following people:
@alopatindev, @bizzu, @bash, @cristicbz, @lpmi-13, @brianjaustin, @booyaa
Copyright
Copyright 2019 Mark Sta Ana. Forked and maintained by simon0302010.
Copyright 2025 simon0302010.
see LICENSE