checkip VS gosec

Compare checkip vs gosec and see what are their differences.

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checkip gosec
14 19
202 7,426
- 1.2%
4.4 8.8
2 months ago 8 days ago
Go Go
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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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:

gosec

Posts with mentions or reviews of gosec. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-31.

What are some alternatives?

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

golangci-lint - Fast linters Runner for Go

gokart - A static analysis tool for securing Go code

go-tools - Staticcheck - The advanced Go linter

pre-commit-golang - Pre-commit hooks for Golang with support for monorepos, the ability to pass arguments and environment variables to all hooks, and the ability to invoke custom go tools.

rustsec - RustSec API & Tooling

docker-bench-security - The Docker Bench for Security is a script that checks for dozens of common best-practices around deploying Docker containers in production.

gokart-action - Integrate GoKart security static analysis to GitHub Actions

golang-standards/project-layout - Standard Go Project Layout

envchain - Environment variables meet macOS Keychain and gnome-keyring <3

linters - a community wiki for improving code quality

dnstake - DNSTake — A fast tool to check missing hosted DNS zones that can lead to subdomain takeover

flake8-bandit - Automated security testing using bandit and flake8.