Hardcodes - Find Hardcoded Strings From Source Code

hardcodes is a utility for searching strings hardcoded by developers in programs. It uses a modular tokenizer that can handle comments, any number of backslashes & nearly any syntax you throw at it.
Yes, it is designed to process any syntax and following languages are officially supported:

ada, applescript, c, c#, c++, coldfusion, golang, haskell, html, java, javascript, jsp, lua, pascal, perl, php, powershell, python, ruby, scala, sql, swift, xml

Installation

with pip

pip3 install hardcodes

or build from source

git clone https://github.com/s0md3v/hardcodes && cd hardcodes && python3 setup.py install

For Developers
The sample program below demonstrates usage of hardcodes library

The arguments lang and comments are optional. Their use is explained below in the user documentation section.

For Users
cli.py provides a grep-like command line interface to hardcodes library. You will need to install the library first to use it.

Find strings in a file

Find strings in a directory, recursively

Hide paths from output

Specify programming language
Specifying a language is optional and should be used only when the programming language of source is already known.

Specify comment behaviour
With -c option, you can specify

ignore ignore the comments completely parse parse the comments like code string add comments to list of hardcoded strings

python cli.py -o /path/to/file.ext