Jackal007 / pywifi

A cross-platform module for manipulating WiFi devices.

pywifi

pywifi provides a cross-platform Python module for manipulating wireless interfaces.

• Easy to use
• Supports Windows and Linux

Now pywifi runs under python 2.7 & 3.5

Prerequisites

On Linux, you will need to run wpa_supplicant to manipulate the wifi devices, and then pywifi can communicate with wpa_supplicant through socket.

On Windows, the Native Wifi component comes with Windows versions greater than Windows XP SP2.

Installation

After installing the prerequisites listed above for your platform, you can use pip to install from source:

cd pywifi/
pip install .

Example

import pywifi

wifi = pywifi.PyWiFi()

iface = wifi.interfaces()[0]

iface.disconnect()
time.sleep(1)
assert iface.status() in\
    [const.IFACE_DISCONNECTED, const.IFACE_INACTIVE]

profile = pywifi.Profile()
profile.ssid = 'testap'
profile.auth = const.AUTH_ALG_OPEN
profile.akm.append(const.AKM_TYPE_WPA2PSK)
profile.cipher = const.CIPHER_TYPE_CCMP
profile.key = '12345678'

iface.remove_all_network_profiles()
tmp_profile = iface.add_network_profile(profile)

iface.connect(tmp_profile)
time.sleep(30)
assert iface.status() == const.IFACE_CONNECTED

iface.disconnect()
time.sleep(1)
assert iface.status() in\
    [const.IFACE_DISCONNECTED, const.IFACE_INACTIVE]

How to contribute/ToDo

Following items may be done in the future:

• OS-X Support
• Rewrite Linux part: communicate with wpa_supplicant via sockets instead of D-bus
• Documentation

(C) Jiang Sheng-Jhih 2016, MIT License.