cli
GitHub’s official command line tool (by cli)
canarytokens
Canarytokens helps track activity and actions on your network. (by thinkst)
| cli | canarytokens | |
|---|---|---|
| 280 | 27 | |
| 39,805 | 1,867 | |
| 1.4% | 1.2% | |
| 9.9 | 8.9 | |
| 6 days ago | about 13 hours ago | |
| Go | HTML | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
cli
Posts with mentions or reviews of cli.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-07-06.
- Backlog.md – CLI that auto-generates task files (took my Claude success to 95 %)
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Reading Hacker News weekly posts with GitHub CLI
Use gh to interact with GitHub from the command line
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The problem with Open Source, in 2025
Gh Github Official CLI
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Time and Truth: Lessons from Tracking My Work with Watson
Here is a hack that I am proud of: I wrote a small script as a GitHub CLI extension:
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Using Checkout Action in GitHub Actions Workflow
A GitHub account and basic familiarity with GitHub actions are requirements for using GitHub actions. Additionally, you will need the GitHub CLI to follow along with the hands-on demo later in this post.
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Easing the start at a new company with glab or gh
I wanted to look at another big platform that I use in my free time. GitHub does have a CLI-tool called gh.
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Replacing App Center with GitHub Actions
Install gh, the GitHub cli
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How to self-host Strapi on Railway
GitHub CLIDownload and Install GitHub CLI here
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Getting Started with Go and the Web: Deploy to Railway
Git and the GitHub CLI should be installed on your machine. Download and install Git from here: Downloads - Git. Download and install the GitHub CLI from here: Download and Install GitHub CLI.
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How to Use Two GitHub Profiles on One Machine
GitHub CLI is a command-line tool that allows you to interact with GitHub from the terminal. You can install GitHub CLI by following the instructions on the GitHub CLI website.
canarytokens
Posts with mentions or reviews of canarytokens.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-30.
- 1Password detects "suspicious activity" in its internal Okta account
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#Anonymous - AK - RABBIT MEET HOLE - #TheDEWFiles 3,000+ Docs On Tons Patents Various Tech, Studies, Research by TONs of Scientists on DEWs & Alternative Energy (Includes Aerospace Companies.)
Get a free OS in a VMand open any files in there. You should not trust a random batch of potentially backdoored or canarytoken'ed files
- What screams "I'm insecure"?
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In your experience, what were some unconventional signs that there's a malware inside your network?
Throw some honeytokens/canarytokens on key systems. Thinkst has a free option where you can drop Word docs, PDF, AWS keys, etc. that will send you an email or webhook if they're ever used. https://canarytokens.org
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IF you did door knocking, what would you leave behind?
QR code with some pdfs from inside a canarytokens.org folder.
- Increase in LockBit Ransomware
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Worried someone has (or may gain) access to your UoG account? Try Canarytokens
You can generate Canarytokens for free on their website: https://www.canarytokens.org/generate. They're open-source, so if you're technically-inclined, you can run the software yourself: https://github.com/thinkst/canarytokens. All the documentation is here: https://docs.canarytokens.org/guide/.
- 1 minute Canaries
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Please help me with internet stalker
I do not think a trap or "phishing link" is a good idea if she are getting serious threats! But it is not too hard, you can generate a few with here and if somebody opens the link you will get an email containing the time and IP address of who opened it: https://canarytokens.org (note that, you can not really do much with these information on your own).
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Someone sending offensive material to people in our google domain
Good tip, OP could use this for quick setup. https://canarytokens.org
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cli and canarytokens you can also consider the following projects:
glab - The GitLab CLI tool. Archived: now officially adopted by GitLab as the official CLI tool and maintained at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli. See https://github.com/profclems/glab/issues/983
hackclub - 🌎 Hack Club is a worldwide community of high school hackers. We make things. We help one another. We have fun.
vscode-dev-containers - NOTE: Most of the contents of this repository have been migrated to the new devcontainers GitHub org (https://github.com/devcontainers). See https://github.com/devcontainers/template-starter and https://github.com/devcontainers/feature-starter for information on creating your own!
anvil-runtime - The runtime engine for hosting Anvil web apps
gh.vim - Vim/Neovim plugin for GitHub
trufflehog - Find, verify, and analyze leaked credentials