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Re:GitHub commit search: “remove password” by dsp1234 on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @10:29AM (#13652634)
Github provides a public firehose for events[0]. So it's possible to hook a process to read from the firehose, and look for commit events and then match file contents against the list of API keys.

[0] - https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/

Re:GitHub commit search: “remove password” by i336_ on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @06:01PM (#13656295)
Yikes. So this is where the evil crawlers are sitting.

Reminds me of the water pipeline in Finding Nemo with the crabs above it.