ramonvermeulen/whosthere
Local Area Network discovery tool with an interactive Terminal User Interface (TUI) written in Go. Discover, explore, and understand your LAN in an intuitive way. Knock Knock.. who's there? 🚪
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Where it stands
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1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 37 days ago, with 13 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #96 in the weekly ranking the week of Feb 22, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a local area network discovery tool with an interactive terminal user interface written in Go.
- Enables fast, concurrent network scanning without requiring elevated privileges using mDNS, SSDP, and ARP cache techniques.
- Use for interactive exploration and identification of devices on your LAN via a modern TUI.
- Use for running continuous background network discovery with an HTTP API for integration into other tools.
- Use for network administrators needing device manufacturer info and optional port scanning on discovered hosts.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
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From the README
Local Area Network discovery tool with a modern Terminal User Interface (TUI) written in Go. Discover, explore, and understand your LAN in an intuitive way.
Whosthere performs unprivileged, concurrent scans using mDNS and SSDP scanners. Additionally, it sweeps the local subnet by attempting TCP/UDP connections to trigger ARP resolution, then reads the ARP cache to identify devices on your Local Area Network. This technique populates the ARP cache without requiring elevated privileges. All discovered devices are enhanced with OUI lookups to display manufacturers when available.
Whosthere provides a friendly, intuitive way to answer the question every network administrator asks: "Who's there on my network?"
Via Homebrew with
brew:On NixOS with
nix:On Arch Linux with
yay:If your package manager is not listed you can always install with Go:
Additionally, you can download pre-built binaries from the releases page.
Daily snapshots
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Forks
74+2
Open issues
6-1
Compared with peers in Networking
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| superdesigndev/treg | 7.2K | +656 | 45 | — |
| MHSanaei/3x-ui | 49.4K | +522 | 53 | 134 days ago |
| netbirdio/netbird | 30.7K | +399 | 65 | 7 days ago |
| tailscale/tailscale | 38.7K | +378 | 65 | 3 days ago |
| caddyserver/caddy | 78.8K | +267 | 60 | 1 day ago |
| ramonvermeulen/whosthere | 2.5K | — | 31 | 37 days ago |
| Category median | 38.7K | +399 | 60 | — |
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