Gitleaks is an open-source secret scanner
for git repositories, files, and directories.
With over 16 million docker downloads, 17k GitHub stars, 9 million GitHub Downloads,
thousands of weekly clones, and over 700k homebrew installs,
gitleaks is the most trusted open-source secret scanner among security professionals, enterprises, and developers. Gitleaks is maintained by
Zach Rice.
Gitleaks-Action is the official Gitleaks GitHub Action.
You can use it to automatically run a gitleaks scan on all your team's pull requests and commits, or run on-demand scans.
For a short demonstration of Gitleaks-Action, you can check out this GIF
or read about the features in the readme.
If you are scanning repos that belong to a GitHub personal account,
then no license key is required. If you are scanning repos that belong to a GitHub organization account,
then you'll have to obtain a free license below.
Free Organization License Key
Fill out Google Form to recieve an organization license.