Tell me more ×  I'm writing a small little app that I want to
submit to the Ubuntu App Review board, and one thing I'd like to
do is for it to show the names of the detected Wireless SSIDs in
a combo box. It's a PyGI app.  Has anyone got any pointers on
how I can get those SSIDs from the system, preferably through a
Python API? From dbus? From NetworkManager?  share|improve this
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You can do this easily from NetworkManager's pygi bindings:
from gi.repository import NetworkManager, NMClient  nmc = devs =
nmc.get_devices()  for dev in devs:     if dev.get_device_type()
== NetworkManager.DeviceType.WIFI:         for ap in
dev.get_access_points():             print ap.get_ssid()  Or
from DBus directly, see  If you're inclined to just quickly
script this in shell; an easy way to ask NetworkManager for this
is to use:  nmcli dev wifi list  Or use iwlist scan, or better:
iw dev wlan0 scan (or ... scan dump), after installing the iw
Install iw package.  sh