Pastebin Monitoring as a Service

Click here if you would like to try it out without deploying it yourself.

Well, why not? It's an interesting side project, and can be rather useful to some people. Great for breach notifications (i.e: realtime notification if a large DB has been pasted to Pastebin), and future versions will have custom filter features which would allow you to monitor for anything (i.e: Your own e-mail, to see if you have been compromised).

Another aspect of this is the fact that there is no data as to who uses pastebin, and how. It would be interesting to analyze the data that surrounds pastebin usage and tangential fields. Essentially, I would like to continue moving this project into a larger scope of data analytics.

(Requires Grunt)

1. git clone the repo

2. npm install .

3. Configure config.js and .env appropriately

4. grunt server to start the server in the development environment

5. grunt build for a production build (will end up in the dist folder)

6. grunt server:dist to run server in production environment (will automatically re-build and serve from dist)

7. grunt test OR npm test to run tests

On User create, API key is generated.

Key has following properties:

• Is unique to user

• Is seemingly 'random' to user

• Cannot be regenerated or 'guessed' easily

• Is therefore implied to be 'secure'

Although there is no collision check per se, the current chance of collision is: 4.4224999038811237107994661897277682453123397014×10^90 : 1.

For every request, API key is passed first. API key ties API actions to user.

All endpoints will be expecting properly formatted JSON. An example of a properly formatted request is: curl -X GET -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"apikey": "<someapikey>"}' http://host.com/api/users/3

If entry is appended with (ADMIN), request must be made by an Admin.

If (USER), request can be made by the User for their own account.

If (ALL), anyone can make the request.

GET /api/users

{ "apikey": "(apikey)" }

GET /api/users/:id

{ "apikey": "(apikey)" }

GET /api/users/:id/settings

{ "apikey": "(apikey)" }

POST /api/users

 { "username": "(username)", "password": "(password)", "userEmail": "(userEmail)" }

POST /api/users

 { "username": "(username)", "password": "(password)", "userEmail": "(userEmail)", "ip": "(IP threshold)", "email": "(Email threshold)", "hash": "(Hash threshold)" }

POST /api/users

 { "apikey": "(apikey)", "users": [{"username": "(username1)", "password": "(password1)", "userEmail": "(userEmail1)", "ip": "(IP threshold1)", "email": "(Email threshold1)", "hash": "(Hash threshold1)"}, {"username": "(username2)"... "hash": "(Hash threshold2)"}, ...] } 

POST /api/users

 { "apikey": "(apikey)", "users": [{"username": "(username1)", "password": "(password1)", "userEmail": "(userEmail1)"}, {"username": "(username2)"... "userEmail": "(userEmail2)"}, ...] }

PUT /api/users/:id

 { "apikey": "(apikey)", "password": "(password)", "userEmail": "(userEmail)", "ip": "(IP threshold)", "email": "(Email threshold)", "hash": "(Hash threshold)" }

DELETE /api/users

{ "apikey": "(apikey)", "username": "(username)" }

DELETE /api/users

 { "apikey": "(apikey)", "id": "(id)" }

DELETE /api/users

 { "apikey": "(apikey)", "users": [{"username": "(username)"}, {"username": "(username2)"}] }

DELETE /api/users

 { "apikey": "(apikey)", "users": [{"id": "(id)"}, {"id": "(id2)"}] }

• Clean up repo

• Continuous Integration

• Proper documentation

• License

Changes from v0.1.0:

Wording clarification hotfix in #2

Minimum-threshold hotfix in #1

Notes:

• Index API keys & check Collision upon user generation

• Custom user filters + thresholds

  • Sanitize RegEx input (for ReDoS)

  • Add timeout to regex filtering as a catchall

• Add Trending File support based on individual user API access

• User's latest triggered pastes

• Triggered paste collection & archiving

Changes from v0.1.0:

Minimum-threshold hotfix in #1

Initial Release

Feature set: Scraper, master & user threshold filters, RESTful API, User Authen + Authz, Semi-functional user portal

As of v0.1.0 - this project is in fairly decent shape & stable. We could, however, use some help implementing proper frontend tests and new features. If you would like to help contribute a feature, take a look at the project roadmap and milestones in github issues. Fork, build your features & tests, and then issue a pull request. We use Git flow to keep our repo tidy.