Script no longer gets SSID. macOS 14.4 Sonoma

When I ran that repeat loop, it kept updating the display dialog with a decremented (5 sec) Remain_time value as in my screen shots posted earlier each time that it timed out. And tested with "Don't Connect" and "Connect Now" buttons which return correct values.

I cannot spend any more time on this.

And, how to use Apple's osascript in a Zsh script:

#!/bin/zsh

function get_SSID () {
    /usr/bin/osascript <<-AS
    use framework "CoreWLan"
    use scripting additions

    property ca : current application

    return ((ca's CWWiFiClient's sharedWiFiClient)'s interface()'s ssid()) as text
AS
}

mySSID=$(get_SSID)
print ${mySSID}
exit 0

chmod +x ./getWiFi.zsh

./getWiFi.zsh

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Tested: Sonoma 14.4, Zsh 5.9

Thank you very much.

I would need to set a variable (mySSID) with the name of the SSID as a text.

However when I use this:

use framework "CoreWLAN"
use scripting additions

property ca : current application

set wifi to (ca's CWWiFiClient's sharedWiFiClient)'s interface()

set mySSID to wifi as string

I get an error displayed:

Can't make «class ocid» id «data optr00000000005E540300600000» into type string.

How could this work?

Thank you.

With the exception of the FileMaker Pro tell block, the preceding AppleScript works fine here on Sonoma 14.4.1 in Script Editor. You can use either cast: as string, or as text, and it will run without errors in the Script Editor.

If you cannot get that AppleScript to work, then replace it with this:

use scripting additions

set ssid to (do shell script "wdutil info | awk '/SSID/ { print $3;exit}'" with administrator privileges) as text

and then feed that ssid result to your FileMaker Pro block.

Thank you very much for your time and your answer.

This new script works, including the FileMaker Pro tell block, but each time I run the script it asks me for the administrator password. Would there be any chance to skip the password?

If y'all can run Swift, here's an Xcode Swift command-line tool that displays all of the SSIDs currently connected:

//
//  GetSSID
//
//  Mostly from https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/50302
//

import Foundation
import CoreWLAN

print("SSIDs:", currentSSIDs())

func currentSSIDs() -> [String] {
    let client = CWWiFiClient.shared()
    return client.interfaces()?.compactMap { interface in
        return interface.ssid()
    } ?? []
}

Slightly less code using this path than using AppleScript, and it'll run on most recent versions of macOS.

Tested with the following:

$ swiftc -v
Apple Swift version 5.9.2 (swiftlang-5.9.2.2.56 clang-1500.1.0.2.5)
Target: x86_64-apple-macosx13.0
$ /usr/bin/xcodebuild -version
Xcode 15.2
Build version 15C500b
$ 

The following is a restructured script that can be used without compiling the Swift code, with a shebang-based workaround for a bug (#68785 / #71004 / #71119) in the command line Swift tooling circa Xcode 15.2:

#!/usr/bin/env DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH=/System/Library/Frameworks /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/swift
// 
//  GetSSID
//
//  Mostly https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/50302
//

import Foundation
import CoreWLAN
 func currentSSIDs() -> [String] {
    let client = CWWiFiClient.shared()
    return client.interfaces()?.compactMap { interface in
        return interface.ssid()
     } ?? []
 }
 print(currentSSIDs())

And with Swift v5.10 on Sonoma 14.4.1, one can also just use the following to get a result from your code:

#!/usr/bin/env swift

but don't blink as Apple will change something again to break this simplicity.

The Sonoma update got me too.

I found that in terminal

networksetup getairportnetwork en0

will display the SSID as

Current Network: SSID

and in Python

import subprocess

wifi = subprocess.check_output(['networksetup', 'getairportnetwork', 'en0']).decode('utf-8')

will return a string containing the SSID

Cheers

There are two options here:

https://community.jamf.com/t5/jamf-pro/collecting-active-ssid-with-macos-sonoma-14-4-and-later/m-p/311680

Or better so it only prints the first result if multiples:

sudo wdutil info | awk '/SSID/ { print $3; exit}'
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Unless I’m specifically scripting GUI apps, I usually use bash or zsh directly and not AppleScript.

If the shell script needs input from the GUI, it uses osascript.