Many "password recovery tools" hosted on GitHub are actually trojans designed to steal your data once you run them.
Tools like WifiPasswordGetter or justinphan3110's script can export all saved network keys on a Windows device into a single wifiPassOutput.txt file.
If your goal was actually related to your or local security:
To avoid the risks and consequences of sharing WiFi passwords on GitHub, follow these best practices:
: Wordlists like the Norwegian-WiFi-Wordlist (16 million entries) are pre-sorted to prioritize the most likely passwords, saving hours of compute time.
: Some newer scripts can read a provided wordlist and automatically rank the top longest and most complex passwords, outputting them to a separate readable file. Magic Mirror Integration TeraTech/MMM-WiFiPassword