hibp-passwords-downloader

Clone of the official HIBP passwords downloader written in Go. This program allows users to download the whole HIBP passwords database.

Installation

Download the latest version from the releases page.

Usage

On Linux/macOS

./hibp-passwords-downloader [outputFileOrFolder]

On Windows

hibp-passwords-downloader.exe [outputFileOrFolder]

outputFileOrFolder: The name of the output file or folder where the downloaded files will be stored.

Flags

Flag	Shorthand	Default	Description
parallelism	-p	4 * CPU cores	The number of parallel requests to send to Have I Been Pwned to download the hash ranges. Has a maximum of 64.
overwrite	-o	false	When set, overwrites any existing files while writing the results.
single	-s	false	When set, writes the hash ranges into a single .txt file. Otherwise, downloads ranges to individual files into a subfolder.
ntlm	-n	false	When set, fetches NTLM hashes instead of SHA1.
resume	-r	false	Resumes download. Skips already downloaded files.

Usage examples

Download all SHA1 hashes to a single text file called pwnedpasswords.txt

./hibp-passwords-downloader -s pwnedpasswords.txt

Download all SHA1 hashes to individual text files into the pwnd directory.

./hibp-passwords-downloader pwnd

Download all NTLM hashes to a single txt file called pwnedpasswords_ntlm.txt

./hibp-passwords-downloader -n pwnedpasswords_ntlm.txt

Building from source

You need to have Go, GoReleaser and Task installed on your machine.

After installing the prerequisites, clone this repository locally using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/ralscha/hibp-passwords-downloader.git

Once you have cloned the repository, navigate to the directory and build it:

cd hibp-passwords-downloader
task build