Portable Port Scanner (ppscanner) is a light-weight open-source CLI utility that leverages on nmap to make quick and elegant scanning of host devices and their ports for better insights, troubleshooting, check vulnerabilites and meet compliance requirements of networks.

• ppscanner leverages on nmap functionalities so you need it installed to be able use it.

$ sudo apt-get install nmap

$ pip install -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/ ppscanner

• Example code for IP Address: 127.0.0.1 and Port: 80
• It automatically gives the port(tcp) and state(open/closed)

$ ppscan scan 127.0.0.1 80

• Other optional arguments are --service with input of yes or no and reason with input yes or no

$ ppscan scan --help