Image Access Monitor

I stumbled upon a post by /u/phpnode detailing his efforts to track the movements of his resumè. Although I’d prefer to keep my resumè in .pdf format for now, I thought this was an interesting application. Each script will still be independently useful for me later, so I’ve decided to build something similar to what he’s done.

The Image Access Monitor

The GitHub repo can be found here.

The functionality of the project can be broken down into clear steps:

1. monitor.sh - Use a cronjob or other means of automatically checking for updates in an Apache2 access log. Note that the location will be different for many users. Although a bit crude, my method is to copy the file after every check; next time the file is checked we can compare against the previous copy.
2. process_log.py - Grab the IP from the access and return it’s geographical location and organization. This functionality could be increased by doing a whois on the IP. Format the message body to include the desired information (that is: IP, location, date).
3. sendmail.py - Send the email using my gmail account

Deployment

Note that this project won’t work on windows, but could be modified to do so.

• Clone the repository, and create a config.py file based on example_config.py
• Ensure apache2 is running on your server, and has an image on it you would like to track. Locate it’s access_log file after making sure it is enabled.
• Modify paths in monitor.sh as needed.
• Create a cronjob or some other method of automatically running the monitor.sh script.