PIBot (or PersonalInformationBot) is a handy reddit bot written in Python using Python's Reddit API Wrapper (PRAW). PIBot searches through a subreddit, whether that may be 'all' or a specific subreddit, and is able to find users sharing personal email addresses, as well as non 1-800 phone numbers.

In order to find emails and phone numbers, this program uses Regular Expressions to identify certain formats of phone numbers and popular email domains. As a result, the bot can detect multiple national phone number formats (albiet not all).

Features

• (Done) Detect Emails using popular domains (gmail, hotmail, aol, yahoo, etc)
  • (Done)Make sure it doesnt detect private email domains
  • (Done) Match, then check if the domain list contains the domain of the email
  • (Done) Use a list of popular domain names to avoid flagging private emails
  • (Done) Use regexp and search for multiple formats of telephone number.
    • (Done) FIND ONLY NON 1-800 NUMBERS!
• (Development) Report posts
  • If it detects, give 5 minutes grace period before reporting, check if post still is still flagged/exists before report.
    • Comment.report(reason)
• (Development) Report, filter and footer!
  • Make a footer for the bot, including an opt-out function
  • Filter to prevent repeat reports (store matches in local file)
  • Finds a moderator to report to

Suggestions

• (Development) Look for other popular email domains
  • Move email domains to a config file, load into list
• (TBA) Only report phone number or email address once
  • Move information into a local file, add to .gitignore, and encrypt the file
• (Development) Use a .txt file to keep a list of comment.id already replied to, then when script is executed, read in existing comment.id
  • This will prevent the bot from spamming users when the program is terminated.
  • Move comment ID to a config file, store into file and load into list on start-up
• (Deprecated) Iff someone PMs the bot with a certain format followed by an email or number, the number is blacklisted from being detected. Use a link to help human.

Preventing PIBot from being banned Reddit-wide

• (TBA) Give mods the ability to blacklist the bot from their subreddits
• (TBA) Make sure PIBot only comments when asked, if at all.
  • (Done) No comments! Interacts with mods via report msg / modmail.
  • (Done) Only reports, making PIBot more for the mods than users.
  • (TBA) Instead of replying to each comment, email the person explaining to them that their information has been compromised.

Todo

1. Finish Report
   • Check subreddit blacklist before reporting
   • Find a moderator of the current subreddit: Subreddit.message(subject, message)
   • Prepare a template, then have the bot send a message to the moderator (with footer)
   • Filter match in local file to prevent spam
2. Finish Opt-Out / Subreddit Blacklist
   • Prepare a footer template, include a link to the PM page with 'User' field filled with 'PrivacyRobit'
   • Moderator sends the name of the subreddit in the PM (without r/, /r/, etc.)
   • Checks if the user is a moderator of the provided subreddit, then add subreddit name to a local file
3. Finish Filter
   • Check for a listed match before reporting
   • Store (strip special characters from match for less false-negatives)
   • Maintain a list of tuples (subreddit:match), store in a dictionary+local file storage or DB
4. See: "Preventing PIBot from being banned Reddit-wide"
5. Release (Pull Request)
6. Work on To do, report errors to GitHub, fix those as well