Nibble is a CLI tool for local network scanning that focuses on speed and ease of use.

Select a network interface, and it scans your local subnet.
Lists hosts, hardware manufacturer, open ports and their services.

• ⚡ Lightning fast, scans using lightweight threads
• 🔒 Safe, does not need admin access or special privileges
• 🥷 Stealthy, emits no network signals before a scan is started
• Clickable interface, use your mouse to navigate and scan 🖱️
  • or navigate with ↑/↓/←/→, w/s/a/d or h/j/k/l
  • context aware help screens, hotkey: ?
• Docker networks and WSL support 📦
  • instant docker network scans when a docker socket is detected
  • can scan windows interfaces from inside wsl
• Shows detected hardware makers: 📙
  • Raspberry Pi, Ubiquiti, Apple and 40,000 other vendor ids
  • Reads service banners on open ports (for example, ssh or nginx)
• Colors matches your terminal theme automatically 🌈
• Defaults to SSH, Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS, SMB, RDP, and more
  • Can be set to a list of custom ports that are stored for future use
  • Target mode for targeted network scans
• History mode for past scans lookup 📜
• Headless mode with JSON output for scripting and automation 🤖

History

See past scans, the found hosts and re-scan all hosts ports. hotkey: r
History remembers your position between sessions, so jump right back in to your last viewed scan.

Easy Installation

Platform	Manager	Command
Ubuntu or Mint, Pop!_OS, Zorin, ...	apt	sudo add-apt-repository ppa:backendsystems/ppa sudo apt install nibble
Fedora or RHEL, CentOS Stream, ...	dnf	sudo dnf copr enable @backendsystems/nibble sudo dnf install nibble
Arch Linux	aur	yay -S nibble-bin
macOS	brew	brew install backendsystems/tap/nibble
🪟 Windows	winget	winget install backendsystems.nibble
Any	npm	npm install -g @backendsystems/nibble or npx @backendsystems/nibble
Any	pip	pipx install nibble-cli
Any	go	go install github.com/backendsystems/nibble@latest

Pre-built binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows (amd64/arm64) are available on the Releases page.

Usage

Run the CLI with the nibble command, select a network interface.
Interface icons: 🔌Ethernet, 📶Wi-Fi, 📦Container, 🔒VPN.

Headless Mode

Run scans without the TUI. Outputs JSON. Activated by the -i input flag.
Headless scans are not saved in history.

-i scan target(s), comma-separated or a file (example_input)
-p custom ports (e.g. 22,80,8000-8100 or - for all)
-o write output to file instead of stdout (example_output)

nibble -i 192.168.0.0/24
nibble -i 192.168.1.223,10.0.0.12/32 -p - -o results.json
nibble -i targets.txt -p 22,80,443,8000-8100

Exit codes: 0 success, 1 error, 2 invalid usage.

License

This project is MIT licensed. See the LICENSE file for details.

Note: The "nibble" name and branding assets are excluded from this license, see the separate LICENSE for branding terms.

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