Name: Betterleaks
Author: Zachary Rice

Betterleaks

Zachary Rice·Betterleaks.Betterleaks

Scan the world (for secrets)

Betterleaks is a tool for finding secrets like passwords and API keys.

winget install --id Betterleaks.Betterleaks --exact --source winget

Latest 1.8.1·August 18, 2026

Release Notes

What's New

Wow two big releases in a day!

Added a validate command to let you re-validate findings without doing a rescan:

# Revalidate a known credential without running detection
printf '%s\n' "$GITHUB_TOKEN" | betterleaks validate --rule-id github-pat

# Print only its status (for example, VALID)
printf '%s\n' "$GITHUB_TOKEN" | betterleaks validate --rule-id github-pat --simple

OOM issue fixed by @gpflaum

Changelog

5eab48332cc48565864514e3bc6de89df091a7c4 clone strings before saving in findings, so fragment.Raw can be released (#308) Thank you @gpflaum!
1c1db0d62048e2f00cffe51ffea6a1c534a7dcab quick update
8173e62e1fa8087d1a49c12ac194037d07565492 validate cmd (#277)

Installer type: `zip`

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Details

Homepage: https://github.com/betterleaks/betterleaks
License: MIT
Publisher: Zachary Rice
Support: https://github.com/betterleaks/betterleaks/issues
Copyright: Copyright (c) Zachary Rice
Moniker: betterleaks

Older versions (7)

1.7.2

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1.7.1

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1.7.0

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1.6.1

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1.5.0

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1.4.1

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1.3.1

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