# Parameter Inventory Builder — Offline Web Application Security Tool

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> **Catalog HTTP request parameters and flag token/PII-shaped values — parameter inventory for AppSec testing and privacy reviews.**

**Category:** Web Application Security  
**Collection phase tool:** 11/15  
**Schema:** [secintel-core](https://github.com/reshot2005/secintel-core) v1  
**Repository:** https://github.com/reshot2005/parameter-inventory-builder  
**Author account:** [reshot2005](https://github.com/reshot2005)

## Why Parameter Inventory Builder ranks for security search

Parameter Inventory Builder is an **offline-first**, research-grade **web application security** utility designed for practitioners who need reproducible analysis without uploading sensitive artifacts to SaaS scanners. It emits structured findings through the shared **secintel** evidence taxonomy (OBSERVED / DERIVED / INFERRED / CORRELATED / VERIFIED) so results are auditable, exportable, and CI-friendly.

### Primary SEO keywords
`parameter inventory, PII in parameters, token parameters, HTTP param audit, privacy AppSec`

### Topics
`web-security` `appsec` `owasp` `cybersecurity` `pentesting` `bug-bounty` `http-security` `security-tools` `python` `offline-security` `parameters` `pii`

## What problem does this solve?

Build a complete parameter catalog and highlight token-like or PII-shaped values that need extra scrutiny.

Security/privacy focused inventory vs generic HAR dumps.

## Key features

- Parameter cataloging

• Token/PII shape heuristics

• Request-source correlation

• Inventory export

• Review-ready findings

  Ideal use cases

  • Prepare fuzzing param lists

• Find sensitive params

• Privacy impact reviews

  Who should use this

  • Security engineers & AppSec / NetSec specialists
  • SOC / DFIR / malware analysts (as applicable)
  • Bug bounty hunters and penetration testers
  • DevSecOps teams needing offline/air-gapped tooling
  • Students and researchers learning web application security

  Quick start

  git clone https://github.com/reshot2005/parameter-inventory-builder.git
  cd parameter-inventory-builder
  python3.12 -m venv .venv
  source .venv/bin/activate  # Windows: .venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1
  pip install -e ../secintel-core  # or: pip install -e git+https://github.com/reshot2005/secintel-core.git#egg=secintel-core
  pip install -e ".[dev]"
  
  parameter-inventory-builder analyze sample_data --json
  parameter-inventory-builder analyze sample_data --html report.html
  parameter-inventory-builder version

  Exports for interoperability

  parameter-inventory-builder analyze sample_data \
    --json --html report.html --csv findings.csv --sarif results.sarif

  Evidence quality & reproducibility

  • Findings follow secintel classification rules (confidence only where schema allows).
  • Provenance includes tool version, config hash, and input integrity metadata.
  • Set SECINTEL_SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH for deterministic timestamps in CI.

  export SECINTEL_SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=1704067200
  parameter-inventory-builder analyze sample_data --json

  Development

  ruff check src tests
  mypy src
  pytest

  Related tools in this collection

  Browse more offline security research tools by reshot2005: network security, web AppSec, DevSecOps, digital forensics, and static malware analysis — each in its own public repository with the same secintel reporting contract.

  License

  MIT — free for research, education, and commercial use with attribution preserved.

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  Discoverability blurb (search engines & GitHub)

  Parameter Inventory Builder (parameter-inventory-builder) — Catalog HTTP request parameters and flag token/PII-shaped values — parameter inventory for AppSec testing and privacy reviews. Search terms: parameter inventory, PII in parameters, token parameters, HTTP param audit, privacy AppSec. Open-source, MIT-licensed, Python 3.12, offline cybersecurity tool by reshot2005.