GitHub - royfrancis/staticrypt: Password protection for static HTML page

Password Protect HTML Pages with StatiCrypt. For more information, visit the Documentation Site.

Quick start

Using docker:

# exports to a directory named 'encrypted' inside the current directory
docker run --rm -v $PWD:/home/work ghcr.io/royfrancis/staticrypt:latest index.html -p mylongpassword

# to overwrite the original file
docker run --rm -v $PWD:/home/work ghcr.io/royfrancis/staticrypt:latest index.html -d . -p mylongpassword

# recursively encrypt and overwrite all html files in a folder
docker run --rm -v $PWD:/home/work ghcr.io/royfrancis/staticrypt:latest path/to/folder/* -r -d . -p mylongpassword

Using nodejs npm:

# create environment
conda create -n nodejs-24 nodejs=24 -c conda-forge
conda activate nodejs-24

# clone repo and install
git clone https://github.com/royfrancis/staticrypt.git
git checkout bootstrap
npm install -g
staticrypt --version

# encrypts and outputs to a directory named 'encrypted' inside the current directory
staticrypt index.html -p mylongpassword
# to overwrite the original file
staticrypt index.html -d . -p mylongpassword
# to recursively overwrite all html files in a folder
staticrypt path/to/folder/* -d path/to/folder -r -p mylongpassword

Updating

npm install -g to update the global package
Evaluate that all tests pass: npm test
To preview documentation; npm install then npm run docs:dev
Update version in package.json
Update version in docker/README.md
Check env versions are same in conda and docker
Check versions in github actions

Acknowledgements

Built on StatiCrypt

2026 • Roy Francis