Simplest way to connect WiFi python

Question

I would like to connect to my wifi network using python. I know the SSID and the key for the network, and it\'s encrypted in WPA2 security. I have seen some libraries like w

Answer 1

I hope you are using a windows machine. Then you should install winwifi module. Before installing the winwifi module, it is better to install plumbum module . Try it install in python 32 bit version.

Click this to install plumbum module: https://pypi.org/project/plumbum/

Then install winwifi :https://pypi.org/project/winwifi/

Now you could try connecting a known wifi using the following code:

import winwifi
winwifi.WinWiFi.connect('ssid_of_the_router')

This module has many more commands like:

winwifi.WinWiFi.disconnect()

winwifi.WinWiFi.addprofile('ssid_of_new_router'), etc.

You can check this by exploring my github repository: https://github.com/ashiq-firoz/winwifi_Guide

Answer 2

Easy way to connect Wifi without any modules:

import os


class Finder:
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        self.server_name = kwargs['server_name']
        self.password = kwargs['password']
        self.interface_name = kwargs['interface']
        self.main_dict = {}

    def run(self):
        command = """sudo iwlist wlp2s0 scan | grep -ioE 'ssid:"(.*{}.*)'"""
        result = os.popen(command.format(self.server_name))
        result = list(result)

        if "Device or resource busy" in result:
                return None
        else:
            ssid_list = [item.lstrip('SSID:').strip('"\n') for item in result]
            print("Successfully get ssids {}".format(str(ssid_list)))

        for name in ssid_list:
            try:
                result = self.connection(name)
            except Exception as exp:
                print("Couldn't connect to name : {}. {}".format(name, exp))
            else:
                if result:
                    print("Successfully connected to {}".format(name))

    def connection(self, name):
        try:
            os.system("nmcli d wifi connect {} password {} iface {}".format(name,
       self.password,
       self.interface_name))
        except:
            raise
        else:
            return True

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # Server_name is a case insensitive string, and/or regex pattern which demonstrates
    # the name of targeted WIFI device or a unique part of it.
    server_name = "example_name"
    password = "your_password"
    interface_name = "your_interface_name" # i. e wlp2s0  
    F = Finder(server_name=server_name,
               password=password,
               interface=interface_name)
    F.run()