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Plugins

Plugins for Angry IP Scanner are distributed as standard .jar files and are also written in Java to be cross-platform.

Please let me know if you have an interesting plugin you would like to share here.

Angry IP Scanner looks for plugin .jar files on start in:

• The same directory where ipscan binary is located (.jar or .exe)
• User-specific $HOME/.ipscan directory

For more info on how plugin loading works, see PluginLoader.java.

Writing plugins

The plugin's jar file must have a META-INF/MANIFEST.MF entry 'IPScan-Plugins' that lists full Java class names of all plugins contained in the jar file.

A plugin is an implementation of one of the following interfaces:

• Fetcher - corresponds to a column in the result list, fetches data from scanned IP addresses
• Pinger - these guys detect whether an IP is dead or alive
• Exporter - used for exporting the scanning results
• Feeder - these guys generate IP address sequence to scan (feed the scanner)

Plugin classes should generally have a non-arg constructor.

Look at the source code for examples of how the core plugins are implemented.