redacty

This is a CLI tool and Python API that redacts emails from bodies of text in a PostgreSQL database, with optional flags for an excluded domain and an older than x days filter.

• Github repository: https://github.com/wet-bulb/redacty/

Installation

Install redacty with pip

  pip install redacty

Usage/Examples

Command-Line Interface (CLI)

redacty <database_url> <table> <column> [-a AGE] [-x EXCLUDE]

• database_url: PostgreSQL database URL.
• table: Name of the table that holds the column to redact.
• column: Name of the column that holds the text to redact.

Optional arguments:

• -a AGE, --age AGE: Minimum age of records to be anonymized in days. Default is 0 days old.
• -x EXCLUDE, --exclude EXCLUDE: Email domain to exclude from anonymization.

Programatic Use in Python

Here's an example:

from redacty import anonymize_records

# Connect to the PostgreSQL database
conn = psycopg2.connect(database_url)

# Anonymize email addresses in the specified table and column, set minimum age, and no excluded domains
anonymize_records(conn, table, column, 30, " ")

# Close the database connection
conn.close()

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