BCBC API Key Sanitizer — Free Local Tool for Cleaning Logs Before You Share Them

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:key: Ever Pasted a Screenshot and Realized Your API Key Was In It?

Yeah. Everyone’s done this at least once. One key sitting in a screenshot or a copy-pasted config, and it’s out there — even if you delete the post two seconds later, someone already grabbed it.

So I made a tiny tool for that exact moment.

paste your text
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   it scans it
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finds the key/password
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   blacks it out
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you copy the CLEAN version
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   post that instead

:magnifying_glass_tilted_right: It knows what OpenAI, GitHub, AWS, Google, Nvidia, and Hugging Face keys look like, plus general stuff like password= or token= — not just one company’s format.

:electric_plug: Runs right in your browser, nothing gets uploaded anywhere. Sending your secret somewhere else just to check if it’s a secret would kind of defeat the point.

:warning: It’s not psychic — it can miss stuff, so still give the cleaned text a once-over yourself before you post.

:counterclockwise_arrows_button: And if a real key already got posted somewhere: don’t just delete the post, that doesn’t undo it. Go make a new key instead — the old one’s already burned.

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