What is it

WifiQR is a helper tool designed to generate valid Wifi QR codes in your terminal, utilizing libqrcode

Supported

• macOS
  • Tested on Big Sur
  • I have not found a solution to bypass password prompting for the keychain, if you have any ideas please throw up an issue or PR, thanks.
• Linux
  • a good alternative right now is nmcli device wifi show-password while I write support
• Windows

TODO:

• Add support for WEP/WPA/Open, currently only WPA is supported
• Linux support
• Support for macOS airport
• Implement a cool curl script to do exactly this without install
• Windows support
• Find a way to not need to authenticate via PAM on any platform

Installation

For macOS, you need libqrcode

brew install libqrcode

or

sudo port install libqrcode

Upcoming: Linux and Windows

If you choose to move it to a default path location, it's recommended you move it to /usr/local/bin

Usage

After you chmod +x wifiqr.sh and optionally move it to path with sudo mv ./wifiqr.sh /usr/local/bin/wifiqr you can simply

wifiqr

or if you haven't moved it,

./wifiqr.sh

to generate a QR code for your current Wifi