# bee-san/pyWhat

🐸   Identify anything. pyWhat easily lets you identify emails, IP addresses, and more. Feed it a .pcap file or some text and it'll tell you what it is! 🧙‍♀️

Repository: https://github.com/bee-san/pyWhat
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pywhat
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: cyber, security, hacking, cybersecurity, malware, re, python, pcap, malware-analysis, malware-research, tryhackme, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2023-10-31T22:01:01+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1993, "days_push": 1037, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 7313, forks 391 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:58.179954+00:00)

## What it is
pyWhat is a Python CLI tool that identifies what arbitrary text, files, or pcap network captures contain - emails, IP addresses, API keys, cryptocurrency addresses, and more. It recursively scans input using a large library of regex signatures and reports what each match is.

## Use cases
- identify what a mysterious string or hex blob is
- extract emails, URLs, and credit card numbers from a pcap file
- find leaked API keys and credentials in GitHub repositories
- analyze malware samples for hardcoded domains
- scan text for bug bounty findings like webhooks and keys
- identify hashes, cryptocurrency addresses, and identifiers in CTF challenges

## When to choose
- you need to quickly identify unknown strings, files, or network captures
- you want to extract sensitive data like keys and PII from text or pcaps
- you're doing CTF, OSINT, or malware triage work from the command line

## When to avoid
- you need deep static or dynamic malware analysis rather than pattern identification
- you need a GUI-based forensic suite
- you need guaranteed-accurate detection rather than regex-based heuristics

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: security, parser, search-engine, developer-tools
- domain: security, penetration-testing, osint, developer-tools
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform, windows
- tags: osint, ctf, malware-analysis, pcap-analysis, identifier, regex-matching, bug-bounty, command-line, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- bee-san/pyWhat (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:58.179954+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:38:40.444235+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/bee-san/pyWhat (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:58.179954+00:00, sha 83ce12ea9af2)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/pywhat/json (fetched 2026-08-29T08:34:01.840710+00:00, sha 0deb491cb915)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.