atrikgit6174 / pwd-generator

A simple Python project to generate passwords based on user constraints

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pwd-generator's Issues

Suggestion to convert this tool into a CLI

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently, this project is usable from a personal Google Colab notebook, which works by interactively prompting the user.

This causes a few issues,

• One would have to remember or save website/notebook URL somehow
• Wait for Colab to connect and allocate compute
• Provide quite a few, essentially bool flags and string inputs one by one
• Get a result, which if not desirable, run again and provide input which is a slow process
• Simply cannot use it without being connected to the net
• No way to persist passwords

Describe the solution you'd like

Converting this project to a python module that can be used as a CLI might be an ideal solution. It could look something like

pswdgen --chars=5 --numbersrequired --specialchar=2 --charstoinclude="abc" --scramble=3

Thus, it has some benefits,

• CLI can be downloadable via pip and can be used without remembering any particular URL
• Can actually be run locally without waiting for any such allocation and even without a net connection
• User doesn't have to go through all input prompts and can just generate passwords in one go, thus making this tool more pragmatic
• Many users will have terminals with autocompletion/suggestion (eg zsh-autosuggestions) which reduces the need to even type commands fully, so this tool would actually fit in well
• As it runs locally, it has a filesystem to interact with which means functionality to save passwords in some sort of database (maybe SQLite) can be implemented
• Other devs might actually use this within their codebase if need be
• Can still be demo-able via a Colab notebook

Discussed all this with @AtrikGit6174 before!

However, all of this is extra work ! 😅

Describe alternatives you've considered
Continuing with a Colab notebook, in which case it's difficult to use properly. :)