{"id":29,"date":"2023-12-04T10:41:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T10:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkbret.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2023-12-04T10:41:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T10:41:13","slug":"python-network-scanner-using-nmap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkbret.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/04\/python-network-scanner-using-nmap\/","title":{"rendered":"Python Network Scanner using Nmap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is one of my first blog posts on this site so bear with me if it isn’t the prettiest. I will be going over code I wrote in a way that may help you as well. This is the finished code, I will describe it’s function throughout this post. (as best I can, I am no expert for sure and may not use the best terms to describe what is going on)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quick rundown of the code by line:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 import nmap imports the nmap module into python<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    lines 2-3 define different variables<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    target on line 4 defines what IP address will be scanned, be careful with this as scanning an IP without permission can be illegal, I used the loopback address for this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    line 5 defines port scanner object<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    line 6 creates a a loop (including the +1 is for how python counts)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    line 7 creates a string variable<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    line 8 overrides res variable and taking what we want from that scan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    line 9 is a print function that politely lists the results of the scan for you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Next I go to command prompt and change the directory to that which my python is included with the cd command<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    After you are in the directory you want you can use the dir command to see what files are in that area <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Next I run the command with python main.py because I named the file “main.py”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    results: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Okay you get the point I do not need to show you every port. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    One issue I had with this command was I kept getting the result “ModuleNotFoundError: no module named nmap”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    I found the fix to this was to go right into command line and use the pip command “pip install python-nmap”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This worked immediately and after that the code ran very well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Click here to go to the github post about it: NetworkBret\/nmap-python-scanner (github.com)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This is one of my first blog posts on this site so bear with me if it isn’t the prettiest. I will be going over code I wrote in a way that may help you as well. This is the finished code, I will describe it’s function throughout this post. (as best I can, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hide_page_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkbret.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkbret.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkbret.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkbret.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkbret.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networkbret.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/networkbret.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkbret.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkbret.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkbret.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}