Hardcodes is a utility for searching strings hardcoded by developers in programs. It uses a modular tokenizer that can handle comments, any number of backslashes & nearly any syntax you throw at it.
Yes, it is designed to process any syntax and following languages are officially supported:
ada, applescript, c, c#, c++, coldfusion, golang, haskell, html, java, javascript, jsp, lua, pascal, perl, php, powershell, python, ruby, scala, sql, swift, xml
Installation
- With pip
pip3 install hardcodes
- or build from source
git clone https://github.com/s0md3v/hardcodes
cd hardcodes && python3 setup.py install
Documentation
It is available as both a library as well as a command line program. The relevant documentation can be found below:
For Developers
The sample program below demonstrates usage of hardcodes library
from hardcodes import search
string = “console.log(‘hello there’)”
result = search(string, lang=”common”, comments=”parse”)
print(result)
Output: [‘hello there’]
The arguments lang and comments are optional. Their use is explained below in the user documentation section.
For Users
cli.py provides a grep-like command line interface to hardcodes library. You will need to install the library first to use it.
- Find Strings In A File
python cli.py /path/to/file.ext
- Find strings in a directory, recursively
python cli.py -r /path/to/dir
- Hide paths from output
python cli.py -o /path/to/file.ext
- Specify programming language
Specifying a language is optional and should be used only when the programming language of source is already known.
python cli.py -l ‘golang’ /path/to/file.go
- Specify comment behaviour
With -c option, you can specify
ignoreignore the comments completelyparseparse the comments like codestringadd comments to list of hardcoded strings
python cli.py -o /path/to/file.ext
