Is it possible to use nmap functionalities in C++?

Question

I want to invoke nmap functionalities like OS detection in C++.

In python, import nmap allows to use nmap functions. Similarly, is there any way I can do it in C++?

No, there isn't a shared library available. You can use subprocess invocation anyway. — Tatsuyuki Ishi, Mar 14 '17 at 05:59
@TatsuyukiIshi How to use the subprocess invocation? Can you please elaborate — arnav, Mar 14 '17 at 06:01
It's just as simple as starting a child process. Please search before asking. — Tatsuyuki Ishi, Mar 14 '17 at 06:02
Possible duplicate of [Any ideas on how to integrate with nmap programatically?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/735001/any-ideas-on-how-to-integrate-with-nmap-programatically) — manlio, Mar 15 '17 at 09:35

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 15 '18 at 11:00

You can run the nmap as an external program and read its output through a pipe using popen().

Example

FILE *pin = popen("nmap -p 123 10.0.1.0/24","r");
if ( pin ) {
   while (!feof(pin)) {
      const char *line = readLine(pin);
      printf("%s\n", line);
   }
   pclose(pin);
}

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 14 '17 at 13:23

The Python nmap package simply launches the Nmap command and parses the XML output. This is certainly something you could do in C++, though you'd have to work out the parsing yourself. I'm not aware of an existing Nmap-output-parsing library in C or C++ like there are for Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.

Is it possible to use nmap functionalities in C++?

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