crawl QR-codes from search engines and look for Bitcoin wallet private keys
Disclaimer: You probably won't find any private keys of wallets that still contain Bitcoins. If you do, please leave them where they are, this tool is for demonstration purposes only. Also don't put photos of your private keys on the internet.
- sudo apt install python3-dev python3-setuptools python3-pip libzbar0 libzbar-dev
- pip3 install -r requirements.txt
example usage: ./qrpirate.sh "bitcoin qr"
output: keylist_unique.txt
You can use the qrpirate.sh bash script to automate the whole process from search keyword input to private key output, or use the qrcrawler.py and qr2key.py tools on their own. The bash script automates the following steps:
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Call qrcrawler.py with the provided search keywords as an argument to crawl google, bing and baidu for images. They will be downloaded to a qrbooty folder with subfolders for every search engine.
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Rename and move the files up from the subfolders to the qrbooty folder with unique names.
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Call qr2key.py to scan the downloaded images in the qrbooty folder for QR-codes and check if they contain Bitcoin wallet private keys. The keys will be saved in a keylist.txt file.
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Remove duplicates in keylist.txt and output the unique keys to a keylist_unique.txt file
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