cwatch 0.3.5

Monitors and generates a report for changes in reports from Cyberbro

cwatch

A simple tool to regurarly run queries against cyberbro and generate a report.

Configuration

Create a directory where you like to store your configuration and database. Create a configuration file named cwatch.toml in that directory, an example is available in the file _example-config.toml _.

Configuration Sections

[iocs]

• domains - List of domains and IP addresses to monitor

[cyberbro]

• url - URL to your cyberbro instance
• engines - List of threat intelligence engines to query

[cwatch]

• header - Report title (e.g., "Report for example.com")
• footer - Optional footer text for reports
• DB_FILE - SQLite database filename (default: "cwatch.db")

Filtering Options

• ignore_engines - List of engines to completely ignore in diff comparison
• ignore_engines_partly - List of [engine, field] pairs to ignore specific fields within engines

Output Control

• quiet - Set to true to suppress "Checking for changes for: [host]" messages (recommended for 100+ hosts)
• verbose - Set to true to show debug information about filtering

Output Format

cwatch provides a consistent, two-part output format:

1. Human-readable summaries - Markdown-formatted change descriptions for each target as they're processed
2. Detailed JSON diffs - Complete technical details in an appendix at the end of the report

New targets show "Initial data collected" on first run, then changes are detected on subsequent runs.

Install

Run the following in the directory where you have placed cwatch.toml.

uv venv
uv pip install cwatch

Usage

Run cwatch:

uv run cwatch

Designed to be run from cron.