pystemon

Monitoring tool for PasteBin-alike sites written in Python

Copyleft AGPLv3 - Christophe Vandeplas - christophe@vandeplas.com
Feel free to use the code, but please share the changes you've made

Features:

• search for regular expressions in pasties
• flexible design, minimal effort to add another paste* site
• use custom download functions for complex pastie sites
• uses multiple threads per unique site to download the pastes
• waits a random time (within a range) before downloading the latest pastes, time customizable per site
• (optional) only trigger on X hits in the same pastie
• (optional) exclude matching pasties if exclusion regex matches
• (optional) allow additional email recipients per search pattern
• (optional) uses random User-Agents
• (optional) uses random proxies
• removes a proxy if it is unreliable (fails 5 times)
• (optional) compress saved files with Gzip. (no zip to limit external dependencies)
• can run as daemon

Python Dependencies

• PyYAML
• BeautifulSoup
• PyMongo (For Optional Mongodb support)

Limitations:

• Only HTTP proxies are allowed
• Only HTTP urls will use proxies

Usage

Usage: pystemon.py [options]
Options:
      -h, --help            show this help message and exit  
      -c FILE, --config=FILE  
                            load configuration from file  
      -d, --daemon          runs in background as a daemon  
      -k, --kill            kill pystemon daemon
      -s, --stats           display statistics about the running threads (NOT IMPLEMENTED)    
      -v                    outputs more information  

Default configuration file: /etc/pystemon.yaml or pystemon.yaml in current directory