Usually while connecting with the wifi we have to enter some password to access the network, but we are not directly able to see the password we have entered earlier i.e password of saved network. In this article, we will see how we can get all the saved WiFi name and passwords using Python, in order to do this we will use subprocess module of python.
Wi-Fi is a wireless networking technology that allows devices such as computers (laptops and desktops), mobile devices (smartphones and wearables), and other equipment (printers and video cameras) to interface with the Internet.
The subprocess module present in Python(both 2.x and 3.x) is used to run new applications or programs through Python code by creating new processes. It also helps to obtain the input/output/error pipes as well as the exit codes of various commands.
Steps for Implementation :
1. Import the subprocess module
2. Get the metadata of the wlan(wifi) with the help of check_output method
3. Decode the metadata and split the meta data according to the line
4. From the decoded metadata get the names of the saved wlan networks
5. Now for each name again get the metadata of wlan according to the name
6. Start try and catch block and inside the try block, decode and split this metadata and get the password of the given wifi name
7. Print the password and the wifi name and print blank if there is no password
8. In except block if process error occurred print encoding error occurred
Below is the implementation
Python3
# importing subprocessimport subprocess# getting meta datameta_data = subprocess.check_output(['netsh', 'wlan', 'show', 'profiles'])# decoding meta datadata = meta_data.decode('utf-8', errors ="backslashreplace")# splitting data by line by linedata = data.split('\n')# creating a list of profilesprofiles = []# traverse the datafor i in data: # find "All User Profile" in each item if "All User Profile" in i : # if found # split the item i = i.split(":") # item at index 1 will be the wifi name i = i[1] # formatting the name # first and last character is use less i = i[1:-1] # appending the wifi name in the list profiles.append(i) # printing heading print("{:<30}| {:<}".format("Wi-Fi Name", "Password"))print("----------------------------------------------")# traversing the profiles for i in profiles: # try catch block begins # try block try: # getting meta data with password using wifi name results = subprocess.check_output(['netsh', 'wlan', 'show', 'profile', i, 'key = clear']) # decoding and splitting data line by line results = results.decode('utf-8', errors ="backslashreplace") results = results.split('\n') # finding password from the result list results = [b.split(":")[1][1:-1] for b in results if "Key Content" in b] # if there is password it will print the pass word try: print("{:<30}| {:<}".format(i, results[0])) # else it will print blank in front of pass word except IndexError: print("{:<30}| {:<}".format(i, "")) # called when this process get failed except subprocess.CalledProcessError: print("Encoding Error Occurred") |
Output :
Wi-Fi Name | Password ----------------------------------------------- Engineer | ayush123 honor | 1234567890 Engineer_5GHz | ayush123 Redmi | 12345677 Ayush | 123123123 BiGX-cmtqaGFtYjc | rakshit123 UERJTTBV8e0GUmVkbWkg 2 | 987654321 DESKTOP-F32H70N 5009 | SUSHANT@123 UERJTTBV8e0GUmVkbWkg | Bunns | heyhotspot Hogwarts | sushant@123 Cgc wireless | database1234 Moto G (5) Plus 8691 | rakshit123 AndroidAP | udrw7859 AndroidAPab7e | 123000123 roshan | 12345678 Svj? | salonivij Hey | heythere AndroidAP202 | bhuvanbroo JARVIS | abhishek09 B6NO-wq5hamF0IGt1bWHCrg | 12345678 CDAC |
