Nosey Parker Explorer is a TUI application for interactive review and annotation of findings from Nosey Parker, the secrets detector. It has been used on hundreds of offensive security engagements at Praetorian to quickly triage tens of thousands of findings.
Nosey Parker Explorer is built on the Textual TUI framework. It works best with a terminal of at least 160x50.
Its main screen has three panes: a filters pane on the left, a findings pane on top, and a findings details pane on bottom.
When focusing on a particular finding, up to 10 occurrences of it are shown in the details window.
The filters pane provides faceted search of the results, similar to what is provided in online shopping sites.
Its visibility can be toggled by pressing F7.
The full source for a match can be viewed from by pressing o when a match is selected in the details pane.
In the findings pane, you can assign a status to a finding (either accept or reject).
You can also assign a freeform comment if you wish.
Any status or comment you assign will be saved to the Nosey Parker datastore you have opened.
Note that Nosey Parker's own report command understands these annotations; it can produce a static report of findings with a particular status using its --finding-status={accept,reject,mixed,null} option.
Integrated help can be accessed by pressing ?.
Nosey Parker Explorer is a Python program that uses a few non-standard-library dependencies. It requires Python 3.10 or newer.
Prepackaged Python zipapps (produced by shiv) are provided for Linux and macOS for each release.
This installation option is simplest: there is no need to set up a venv or pip install anything; all you need is a Python 3.10+ interpreter.
First, download the appropriate artifact for your Python version, OS, and CPU architecture from the latest release.
Extract that zip file; within is a single file named noseyparker-explorer.
(This single noseyparker-explorer file is a Python zipapp.)
Finally, to run, point it at a Nosey Parker datastore directory (which should contain a datastore.db file):
$ python3 noseyparker-explorer -d <DATASTORE_DIR>
Use uv:
$ uv sync
$ uv run noseyparker-explorer -d <DATASTORE>
NOTE: the versions of Python available in apt in Ubuntu 20.04 include a version of sqlite3 that is too old for Nosey Parker Explorer.
Use uv:
$ uv sync --group dev
$ uv run noseyparker-explorer -d <DATASTORE>
NOTE: the versions of Python available in apt in Ubuntu 20.04 include a version of sqlite3 that is too old for Nosey Parker Explorer.
Nosey Parker Explorer has an integrated help pane that explains usage in more detail.
Activate it by pressing ?.
The filters pane provides a mechanism to filter the set of visible findings, similar to what you get in online shopping sites.
This filtering mechanism is known more technically as faceted search.
A number of facets are available, such as Rule, each with a number of possible values.
These values can be selected to restrict the set of findings to those that have particular facet values.
By default, no facet values are selected, and the entire set of findings is displayed. When you select a facet value only findings that have that particular value will be displayed.
Multiple facet values can be selected simultaneously, which causes the union of those values to be displayed.
The numbers next to facet values indicate how many findings are available given the current set of selected facet values.
You can assign a status (either accept or reject) and freeform comments to both findings and individual matches. These annotations are included in the output of noseyparker report. That command can also filter output by assigned status (e.g., noseyparker report --finding-status accept` to only show accepted findings).
Any status or comment you assign will be saved to the Nosey Parker datastore you have opened. Your data will not be lost.
Nosey Parker Explorer puts your terminal in to application mode which disables clicking and dragging to select text. It is possible to copy from Nosey Parker Explorer, but it probably requires pressing a modifier key as you click and drag:
- iTerm2: the
Fnor Option key - Gnome Terminal: the Shift key
Other terminals may use other modifier keys.
Feedback, bug reports, and feature requests are welcome; please open an issue.
Pull requests are also welcome. If you are considering a substantial change (more than just a bugfix or small addition), consider starting a discussion first.
This project has a number of pre-commit hooks enabled that you are encouraged to use.
To install them in your local repo, make sure you have pre-commit installed and run:
$ pre-commit install
These checks will help to quickly detect simple errors.
Nosey Parker Explorer is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
Any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in Nosey Parker by you, as defined in the Apache 2.0 license, shall be licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.