/pastebin-scraper

A simple scraper that identifies passwords in public posts on pastebin.com

Primary LanguagePython

Pastebin Scraper

Description

This project is a simple scraper that targets the website "pastebin". It scans through the public paste archives and looks for anything that might match a password-like pattern.

It has been designed to be easily extensible for other pages or websites.

Installation

The Pastebin Password Scraper is on pip (https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/).

This is the easiest way to install the PBPWScraper:

pip install PBPWScraper

If you do not want to use pip you can clone the repository here.

Usage

An example is in pastebin_scraper.py:

from presets.pastebin import PastebinScraper

if __name__ == "__main__":

    pastebin_scraper = PastebinScraper()
    password_matches = pastebin_scraper.analyze()

    for pwm in password_matches:
        print pwm

Requirements

  • All requirements are listed in requirements.txt

Install them using pip at https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/

pip install -r requirements.txt
  • The setup script will install the requirements if pip is installed.