ascii-banner

v0.6.0 suspicious
4.0
Medium Risk

Convert text to ASCII art banners using FIGlet fonts

🤖 AI Analysis

Final verdict: SUSPICIOUS

The package shows some unusual characteristics, such as shell execution and lack of detailed metadata, which could indicate potential risks.

  • Shell execution is detected, which might not be necessary for a simple ASCII banner generator.
  • The maintainer's PyPI account appears new or inactive with missing classifiers.
Per-check LLM notes
  • Network: No network calls detected, which is normal for a utility package.
  • Shell: Shell execution is used to run the package's commands, which seems typical for a tool like 'ascii-banner' but warrants further investigation into the necessity of these calls.
  • Obfuscation: No obfuscation patterns detected, indicating low risk of malicious obfuscation.
  • Credentials: No credential harvesting patterns detected, indicating low risk of malicious credential theft.
  • Metadata: The maintainer has a new or inactive account and lacks PyPI classifiers, suggesting low effort in package creation.

📦 Package Quality Overall: Low (3.6/10)

✦ High Test Suite 9.0

Test suite present — 14 test file(s) found

  • 14 test file(s) detected (e.g. test_animation.py)
○ Low Documentation 1.0

No documentation detected

  • No documentation URL, doc files, or meaningful description found
○ Low Contributing Guide 2.0

No contributing guide or governance files found

  • No CONTRIBUTING, CODE_OF_CONDUCT, or governance files found
◈ Medium Type Annotations 5.0

Partial type annotation coverage

  • 149 type-annotated function signatures detected in source
○ Low Multiple Contributors 1.0

Unable to verify contributor count: no GitHub repository found

  • No GitHub repository linked — contributor count unavailable

🔬 Heuristic Checks

✓ Outbound Network Calls

No suspicious network call patterns found

✓ Code Obfuscation

No obfuscation patterns detected

⚠ Shell / Subprocess Execution score 6.0

Found 3 shell execution pattern(s)

  • ] result = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, text=True, check=False) if
  • s a subprocess.""" return subprocess.run( [sys.executable, "-m", "ascii_banner", *args],
  • NNER"] = "1" result = subprocess.run( [sys.executable, "-m", "ascii_banner", "Hello"]
✓ Credential Harvesting

No credential harvesting patterns detected

✓ Typosquatting

No typosquatting candidates detected

✓ Registered Email Domain

No author email provided

✓ Suspicious Page Links

All external links appear legitimate

✓ Git Repository History

No GitHub repository linked

  • No GitHub repository link found
⚠ Maintainer History score 4.0

2 maintainer concern(s) found

  • Author "nvk" appears to have only 1 package on PyPI (new or inactive account)
  • Package has no PyPI classifiers (low effort / metadata quality)
✓ Known CVE Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities found in OSV database.

💡 AI App Starter Prompt

Use this prompt to build a project with ascii-banner 
Create a command-line utility called 'BannerMaster' that allows users to generate ASCII art banners from their input text. This utility will use the 'ascii-banner' Python package to convert text into various styles of ASCII banners. The application should provide a user-friendly interface where users can input their desired text and select from different available FIGlet fonts to style their banner.

Steps to create the application:
1. Install the required 'ascii-banner' package via pip.
2. Design a simple command-line interface that prompts the user for input text.
3. List available FIGlet fonts and allow the user to choose one.
4. Use the selected font to generate an ASCII banner from the input text.
5. Display the generated banner on the console.
6. Implement an option for users to save the generated banner as a text file.
7. Add error handling for invalid inputs and ensure the application gracefully handles exceptions.
8. Include documentation and comments in your code for clarity.

Suggested Features:
- Support for multiple languages by integrating with language-specific FIGlet fonts.
- Option to customize banner size and alignment.
- Ability to preview the banner before saving it to a file.
- User guide and help menu accessible via command-line options.

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