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Whoa. Nice to see someone else doing what I am already doing.

New version is coming out this week that lets you search via relation.

That's an awesome project. Have you open sourced it?

Also, just to draw the distinction: Pasteye is for near-realtime monitor notifications, and it seems like Canarypw is more like an archival search.

This project isn't open-sourced but there is an API in the works. I am going to be presenting some of its abilities at BSides Vancouver next month.

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I should add that a component of it might be open-sourced but I haven't had much time to digest the idea of doing so.

JUST TYPE YOUR PASSWORD INTO THIS BOX, IT'S COOL.

Source code is available, and you can use _any_ password.

Inb4 not reading before posting

speaking from experience (https://github.com/bryanbrannigan/pastebin-parser) if you are just grabbing the pastes from the "latest" box you are missing a lot. To grab everything we actually had to create a distributed setup or else pastebin would start banning our IPs.

I ran into that issue myself. Pastebin throttling is real. I was playing around with the idea of actually using the socks5 proxies gathered through scraping in order to retain modularity (and eliminate the necessity of multi-IP set ups which could easily get pricey).

It would be tough because I would have to check the health of each proxy prior to use (so that I don't miss out on request windows), but still an interesting concept to consider.

cheap VPS boxes from lowendbox.com work well for this purpose. we also had problems just processing the queue on busy days.

Distribution is what I ended up doing. :)

I got around this with @dumpmon by simply playing nice with Pastebin. I discovered what limits they liked/didn't like, and adjusted accordingly.

I take my entries from the archive as they are available, and I don't believe I ever miss any.

Good work! Just a suggestion: You should probably look to collaborate with this guy: https://haveibeenpwned.com/

The two of you together can help us (l)users know when we've been pwned...

Creator of the project here. Thanks for the suggestion! I'll look into it

I don't want something I have to create an account for. I want to search my email address/name/phone number on my own accord.

Then feel free to fork and set up your own instance (hence, why I open sourced it), or use canary.pw to search through archives.

Might also be of related interest: https://twitter.com/dumpmon

Conceptually, the same thing. Only difference is I abstracted my project as a SaaS (that took forever) so you didn't _have_ to run your own instance.

Also, I wrote mine in Node (scrape parsing & RESTful APIs just SCREAM async), while dumpmon is written in Python

Hi there! Author of @dumpmon here. If you are interested, the entire project is open-sourced here: https://github.com/jordan-wright/dumpmon

I'm planning a solid revision sometime soon!

What's to prevent a hacker from compromising a computer then checking config scripts for the monitor?

This is meant to be deployed as a SaaS (hence, why there are user management features included). There are two possible scenarios here:

#1 - Hacker breaks into your production server and steals your config files

#2 - Hacker breaks into your dev computer and steals your config files

If either of these things happen, I think you have a bigger security issue than any you might find on Pasteye.

At that point you might as well take all those wide open Chrome passwords.

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