A simple keylogger for Windows, Linux and Mac

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Welcome to the simple keylogger repo! A keylogger is a program that records your keystrokes, and this program saves them in a log file on your local computer.

Check out below to learn how to install them. These keyloggers are simple and bare bones, however they work great! Feel free to fork and improve it if you want. Be sure to check out the issues or pull requests to see if your problem has been fixed, or to help out others.

Currently, there are three keylogger programs for the major operating systems; Windows, Mac and Linux.

Looking to make a fix or change on the website? You can find the website repo here.

Or, view the README.md file in each programs folder for more up to date information.

Windows

To change visibility of the window set the #define in line 13 to visible or invisible.

Simply compile into an .exe, and then run. Visual Studio is good for this.

invisible makes the window of the logger disappear, and it also starts up hidden from view. Note that it is still visible in the task manager.
visible is visible, and the window does not close when typing. Great for testing it out.

Both of these save the keystrokes to a .txt file when closed.

Note that sometimes your compiler may throw up errors. If it does, keep compiling - the program still works. Please check issues and discussions if you have a problem.

@mydarkthawts has an excellent comment with a guide and a video on how to compile this here.

Mac

See Casey Scarborough.

Linux

Usage

  pip install -r requirements. txt
  keylogger.py

How to run it

By running nohup python3 keylogger.py & command, it'll start to log your strokes: The meaning of nohup is ‘no hangup‘. When nohup command use with ‘&’ then it doesn’t return to shell command prompt after running the command in the background.

$~/Keylogger/linux$ nohup python3 keylogger.py &
[1] 12529 //this is the keylogger's PID (process ID)
$:~/Keylogger/linux$ fg

The Keylogger is now running! It will log your strokes to a file . Stop it by typing the command fg then hitting CTRL+C

kill {PID} for example kill 12529

Uses

Some uses of a keylogger are:

Personal Control and File Backup: Make sure no one is using your computer when you are away.
Self analysis

Feel free to contribute to fix any problems, or to submit an issue!

Please note, this repo is for educational purposes only. No contributors, major or minor, are to fault for any actions done by this program.

Don't really understand licenses or tl;dr? Check out the MIT license summary.

Distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.

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