checkip VS gitleaks

Compare checkip vs gitleaks and see what are their differences.

checkip

Get (security) info about IP addresses (by jreisinger)

gitleaks

Protect and discover secrets using Gitleaks 🔑 (by gitleaks)
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checkip gitleaks
14 34
202 15,075
- 3.3%
4.4 8.2
about 1 month ago 2 days ago
Go Go
MIT License MIT License
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checkip

Posts with mentions or reviews of checkip. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-29.
  • CLI tool and library that checks an IP address
    4 projects | /r/golang | 29 Oct 2021
    Did you come across an IP address, like from logs, and you have no idea what is it? checkip can help you.
    4 projects | /r/golang | 29 Oct 2021
    I'm getting it here. And I'm using net Go standard library package.
    4 projects | /r/golang | 29 Oct 2021
    OK :-)
  • Check an IP address using various public services
    3 projects | /r/cybersecurity | 29 Oct 2021
    checkip uses also shodan. It gets the OS and ports from there.
    3 projects | /r/cybersecurity | 29 Oct 2021
    I try to put only the most useful information in the output, like geolocation, OS and ports, company responsible for the autonomous system. And it quickly tells you whether the IP address is considered malicious. Also it's easy to add more Checkers (code the gives you information on an IP address). See https://github.com/jreisinger/checkip for more.
    3 projects | /r/cybersecurity | 29 Oct 2021
    I wanted to add it to checkip but I can't call it from command line:

gitleaks

Posts with mentions or reviews of gitleaks. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-08.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing checkip and gitleaks you can also consider the following projects:

trufflehog - Find and verify credentials

trivy - Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more

git-secrets - Prevents you from committing secrets and credentials into git repositories

pre-commit - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.

husky - git hooks made easy

semgrep - Lightweight static analysis for many languages. Find bug variants with patterns that look like source code.

sops - Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets

git-all-secrets - A tool to capture all the git secrets by leveraging multiple open source git searching tools

shhgit - Ah shhgit! Find secrets in your code. Secrets detection for your GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket repositories.

bandit - Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code.

dockle - Container Image Linter for Security, Helping build the Best-Practice Docker Image, Easy to start

ggshield - Find and fix 360+ types of hardcoded secrets and 70+ types of infrastructure-as-code misconfigurations.