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noseyparker — Scan text and Git history for secrets and sensitive information. Note: Use a separate datastore dire

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Problem

How to use the noseyparker command: Scan text and Git history for secrets and sensitive information. Note: Use a separate datastore directory (--datastore) for each scan. See also: trufflehog. More information: <https://github.com/praetorian-inc/noseyparker#usage-examples>.

Solution

noseyparker — Scan text and Git history for secrets and sensitive information. Note: Use a separate datastore directory (--datastore) for each scan. See also: trufflehog. More information: <https://github.com/praetorian-inc/noseyparker#usage-examples>.

Scan a local file or directory for secrets:

noseyparker scan {{path/to/file_or_directory}} {{[-d|--datastore]}} {{path/to/datastore.np}}

Show a report from a previous scan:

noseyparker report {{[-d|--datastore]}} {{path/to/datastore.np}}

Show a report in different format (default is human):

noseyparker report {{[-d|--datastore]}} {{path/to/datastore.np}} {{[-f|--format]}} {{human|json|jsonl|sarif}}

Scan a remote Git repo (and Git history) for secrets:

noseyparker scan --git-url {{URL}} {{[-d|--datastore]}} {{path/to/datastore.np}}

Scan all GitHub repositories of a user or organization for secrets:

noseyparker scan {{--github-user|--github-organization}} {{username_or_org_name}} {{[-d|--datastore]}} {{path/to/datastore.np}}

List all scan rules:

noseyparker rules list

List all GitHub repositories of a user or organization:

noseyparker github repos list {{--user|--organization}} {{username_or_org_name}}

Code Snippets

Scan a local file or directory for secrets

noseyparker scan {{path/to/file_or_directory}} {{[-d|--datastore]}} {{path/to/datastore.np}}

Show a report from a previous scan

noseyparker report {{[-d|--datastore]}} {{path/to/datastore.np}}

Show a report in different format (default is `human`)

noseyparker report {{[-d|--datastore]}} {{path/to/datastore.np}} {{[-f|--format]}} {{human|json|jsonl|sarif}}

Scan a remote Git repo (and Git history) for secrets

noseyparker scan --git-url {{URL}} {{[-d|--datastore]}} {{path/to/datastore.np}}

Scan all GitHub repositories of a user or organization for secrets

noseyparker scan {{--github-user|--github-organization}} {{username_or_org_name}} {{[-d|--datastore]}} {{path/to/datastore.np}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/noseyparker

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