Using the Pwned Passwords API directly

If the validator and middleware do not cover your needs, you can also directly check a password against Pwned Passwords.

pwned_passwords_django.api.pwned_password(password)

Given a password, checks it against the Pwned Passwords database and returns a count of the number of times that password occurs in the database, or None if it is not found.

Parameters:password (str) – The password to check. Return type:int or None