dancergraham/random-password-generator

Random Password Generator package for Python

Random password Generator

A minimal and custom random password generator.

• No dependencies.
• Generate a simple password of default length 6-16.
• Generate a password with custom properties.
• Generate a password from given characters.
• Generate Non Duplicate Password.
• Available at https://random-pg.herokuapp.com/ (API and WEB versions are available @ https://github.com/suryasr007/rpg-web repo)

[NOTICE] API and WEB versions are now moved to https://github.com/suryasr007/rpg-web

Usage

• Install the package.
• Import the package.
• Create an instance
• Modify the default properties. (Optional)
• Generate the password (Default length of password 6-16 unless specified via properties).

  pip install random-password-generator

  from password_generator import PasswordGenerator

  pwo = PasswordGenerator()
  pwo.generate()

Configuration

property	Description	Default
minlen	Minimum length of the password	6
maxlen	Maximum length of the password	16
minuchars	Minimum upper case characters required in password	1
minlchars	Minimum lower case characters required in password	1
minnumbers	Minimum numbers required in password	1
minschars	Minimum special characters in the password	1

Update V2.2.0

Application is now minimal(No dependencies). The API and WEB version are moved to https://github.com/suryasr007/rpg-web

Update V2.1.0

Application uses secrets module instead of random module on Python environments above 3.6.

Update V1.1.0

From version 1.1.0, Characters can be excluded from the required password by setting the properties on PasswordGenerator object

example:

  pwo = PasswordGenerator()

  pwo.excludeuchars = "ABCDEFTUVWXY" # (Optional)
  pwo.excludelchars = "abcdefghijkl" # (Optional)
  pwo.excludenumbers = "012345" # (Optional)
  pwo.excludeschars = "!$%^" # (Optional)

Generate a custom password

  pwo = PasswordGenerator()

  # All properties are optional
  pwo.minlen = 30 # (Optional)
  pwo.maxlen = 30 # (Optional)
  pwo.minuchars = 2 # (Optional)
  pwo.minlchars = 3 # (Optional)
  pwo.minnumbers = 1 # (Optional)
  pwo.minschars = 1 # (Optional)

  pwo.generate()

Generate a password from given characters

  pwo = PasswordGenerator()

  # It takes two arguments
  # required characters and length of required password
  pwo.shuffle_password('sdafasdf#@&^#&234u8', 20)

Generate Non Duplicate Password

  pwo = PasswordGenerator()

  # length of required password
  pwo.non_duplicate_password(20)

Contributions

Contributions are welcomed via PR.

License

• MIT