Feature Request: API for detecting secrets for sources other than files

[JLLeitschuh]

• I'm submitting a ...

  • [ ] bug report
  • [x] feature request

• What is the current behavior?

The current API and implementation is heavily reliant upon the expectation that this project will be used to scan a filesystem. However, it may be useful to find secrets that have in some string that may only exist in memory.

• What is the expected behavior?

It would be great if you could scan a given string you have in memory and determine if that string contains a secret.

• What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?

This would allow this library to be used to detect secrets in context outside of just a filesystem, but more generally as a secret detection library.

[issabayevmk]

Hi @lorenzodb1. Can you please check my pull request https://github.com/Yelp/detect-secrets/pull/836 which introduces API for calling detect-secrets from python scripts. It has following features:

• Get list of supported plugins
• Scan string with all plugins or specified plugins
• Scan file with all plugins or specified plugins
• Scan git repo with options to scan all files or only git tracked repos. Also with all plugins or specified plugins