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.
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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
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