# brand_watch

**Repository Path**: mirrors_opendns/brand_watch

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: brand_watch
- **Description**: Use OpenDNS's investigate API to find newly observed domains which match a brand or string
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Not specified
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-09-25
- **Last Updated**: 2026-01-24

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

# Brand Watcher

This is meant to be run periodically to identify if a new domain was seen in OpenDNS' investigate that matches a defined brand

## Set up 

To use set up a virtualenv and install required packages

```
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
```

Then modify `brand_watch.py` and define your `api_key`

```
api_key='YOUR INVESTIGATE API KEY'
```

## Running

Set up a cron job or periodically run brand_watch with a brand you'd like to watch. For instance, to check out paypal, just provide it as a parameter. 

```
python brand_watch.py paypal
```

If you have a list of known newly registered domains, you can exclude them from results with the `-e` option:

```
python brand_watch.py -e exclude.list paypal
```