GitHub Secret Scanner — Your Repos Only (Local)

Setup

GitHub Personal Access Token (optional; required for private repos & higher limits)

With token: scans private + public, higher rate limits. Without token: scans public repos only (rate limit ~60/hr).

Target GitHub username

Max file size (KB)

Include private repos (requires token) Include forks Include archived Skip common build/vendor dirs

Scan commit history (default branch)

Max commits to traverse

Repos

Files scanned

Matches

Rate limit

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