Generate Password LaunchBar Action

This is a LaunchBar 6 Action to generate secure passwords and copy them to the system clipboard.

It uses the KeePass Password Generator to allow you to specify a character set for the generated password. This functionality is provided by an included copy of the keepass-password-generator RubyGem -- no external dependencies are required.

Installation

Grab "Generate.Password.zip" from the latest release at https://github.com/itspriddle/generate-password.lbaction/releases. Unzip and open "Generate Password.lbaction" to install it.

Usage

To generate a password, invoke LaunchBar and select "Generate Password". After running the action, the newly generated password is copied to the system clipboard.

By default, this Action will generate a 20 character password using L{9}d{9}s{9} as the KeePass character set. This will generate a password with 9 mixes-case letters, 9 digits, and 2 special characters.

To specify a different character set, press Space after selecting the Action from LaunchBar and type in the desired character set, eg: S{30}.

Preferences

If you want to use a different default character set, you can create or edit ~/Library/Application Support/LaunchBar/Action Support/io.github.itspriddle.LaunchBar.action.GeneratePassword/Preferences.plist and set defaultFormat.

For example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>defaultFormat</key>
	<string>S{30}</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/itspriddle/generate-password.lbaction

License

Released under the MIT license:

Copyright (c) 2018 Joshua Priddle jpriddle@me.com

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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