wifi-scan

Friendly front-end to iwlist for wireless network scanning & troubleshooting.

In action

$ wifi-scan -k channel
+------+---------+-----------+---------+---------------------------------+
| cell | channel | frequency | quality | essid                           |
+------+---------+-----------+---------+---------------------------------+
| 14   | 1       | 2.412     | 44      | SNewSt2R                        |
| 7    | 6       | 2.437     | 41      | MOTOROLA-Cxxx4                  |
| 8    | 6       | 2.437     | 44      | SomeCleverWiFiName              |
| 2    | 8       | 2.447     | 100     | mytroubledwifi                  |
| 3    | 8       | 2.447     | 100     | dejaloya                        |
| 9    | 8       | 2.447     | 100     |                                 |
| 10   | 11      | 2.462     | 88      | The Jam 2.4G                    |
| 1    | 36      | 5.18      | 100     | mytroubledwifi-5GHz             |
| 6    | 36      | 5.18      | 44      | DIRECT-C1-HP OfficeJet Pro 9010 |
| 11   | 36      | 5.18      | 44      |                                 |
| 12   | 36      | 5.18      | 44      | yoyoyo                          |
| 13   | 36      | 5.18      | 44      | XFINITY                         |
| 15   | 36      | 5.18      | 44      | Lindsey                         |
| 4    | 48      | 5.24      | 72      | The Jam 5G                      |
| 5    | 153     | 5.765     | 44      | xfinitywifi                     |
| 16   | 153     | 5.765     | 44      | thisnetworkisalsohere           |
+------+---------+-----------+---------+---------------------------------+

Install

Using Python v3.8 (or better):

python3 -m pip install wifi-scan

As an alternative consider pipx:

pipx install wifi-scan