datacloak 0.2.0

Privacy protection library for detecting and masking PII in text, logs, and files.

DataCloak 🔒

Privacy protection for Python applications — detect and mask PII in text, logs, files, and data pipelines.

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DataCloak is a production-ready Python library for automatically detecting and masking Personally Identifiable Information (PII) — built for India-first compliance use cases (Aadhaar, PAN, UPI) while covering universal types like email and credit cards.

✨ Features

Capability	Description
8 built-in detectors	Aadhaar, PAN, Mobile, Email, UPI ID, Credit Card (Luhn), IFSC, IPv4/IPv6
3 masking modes	partial (keep trailing chars), full (redaction tags), hash (SHA-256)
File scanning	.txt, .log, .csv — extensible to PDF, DOCX, and more
Structured scan	Returns findings dict without modifying original text
JSON reports	Risk-level classified reports with per-type counts
CLI	datacloak scan / mask / report commands
Pluggable detectors	Subclass BaseDetector to add your own PII types

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🚀 Installation

pip install datacloak

Requires Python 3.11+.

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⚡ Quick Start

from datacloak import mask, scan

text = """
Aadhaar: 2345 6789 0123
PAN: ABCPE1234F
Email: [e-mail]
Phone: [phone]
"""

# Partial masking (default) — keeps trailing characters visible
print(mask(text))

Output:

Aadhaar: XXXX XXXX 0123
PAN: XXXXX1234F
Email: a***@example.com
Phone: ******3210

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📖 Usage Guide

1. Masking Modes

from datacloak import mask

text = "Contact: [e-mail] | Phone: [phone]"

# Partial — show trailing characters (default)
mask(text, mode="partial")
# → 'Contact: a***@example.com | Phone: ******3210'

# Full — replace with descriptive redaction tags
mask(text, mode="full")
# → 'Contact: [EMAIL_REDACTED] | Phone: [PHONE_REDACTED]'

# Hash — SHA-256 digest (deterministic and irreversible)
mask(text, mode="hash")
# → 'Contact: [HASH:142d78e466cacab3] | Phone: [HASH:7619ee8cea49187f]'

2. Scan Without Masking

from datacloak import scan

findings = scan("Send invoice to [e-mail], call 9876543210")
print(findings)
# {
#   "email": ["[e-mail]"],
#   "phone": ["9876543210"]
# }

3. File Scanning

from datacloak import scan_file

# Scan a plain text or log file
result = scan_file("application.log")

# Scan a CSV (each cell is scanned individually)
result = scan_file("customers.csv")

print(result.summary)
# {"email": 142, "phone": 38, "aadhaar": 5}

print(result.findings[0])
# FileFinding(email='[e-mail]' @customers.csv:line=2)

4. Report Generation

from datacloak import report

r = report(text, source_label="user_input")
print(r.to_json())

{
  "generated_at": "2026-06-01T10:23:00+00:00",
  "source": "user_input",
  "total_findings": 4,
  "summary": {
    "aadhaar": 1,
    "email": 1,
    "phone": 1,
    "pan": 1
  },
  "details": { ... },
  "risk_level": "MEDIUM"
}

Save to disk:

r.save("pii_report.json")

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🖥️ Command-Line Interface

DataCloak ships a full CLI via datacloak:

# Scan a file and display findings as a table
datacloak scan customers.txt

# Scan with JSON output
datacloak scan --format json customers.txt

# Mask a file (writes customers.masked.txt by default)
datacloak mask customers.txt

# Mask with full-redaction mode, specify output file
datacloak mask customers.txt --mode full --output clean.txt

# Print masked output to stdout (pipe-friendly)
datacloak mask customers.txt --stdout | grep "REDACTED"

# Generate a JSON report
datacloak report customers.txt

# Save report to file
datacloak report customers.txt --output report.json

# Verbose logging
datacloak -v scan customers.txt

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🔌 Writing a Custom Detector

DataCloak's detector framework is designed for extension. Subclass BaseDetector, set _pattern, and optionally override _validate():

import re
from datacloak.detectors import BaseDetector, Detection
from datacloak import scan

class PassportDetector(BaseDetector):
    name = "indian_passport"
    description = "Indian Passport Number (A-Z followed by 7 digits)"
    _pattern = re.compile(r"\b[A-Z]\d{7}\b")

# Use alongside built-in detectors
from datacloak.detectors import DEFAULT_DETECTORS

my_detectors = DEFAULT_DETECTORS + [PassportDetector()]
findings = scan("Passport: A1234567", detectors=my_detectors)
# {"indian_passport": ["A1234567"]}

Adding a new file format

from datacloak.file_scanner import FileHandler, register_handler
from pathlib import Path

class PDFHandler(FileHandler):
    extensions = (".pdf",)

    def extract_chunks(self, path: Path):
        # Use any PDF library (pdfplumber, PyMuPDF, etc.)
        import pdfplumber
        with pdfplumber.open(path) as pdf:
            for page_num, page in enumerate(pdf.pages, start=1):
                text = page.extract_text() or ""
                yield page_num, None, text

register_handler(PDFHandler())

# Now scan_file("document.pdf") works automatically

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🕵️ Supported PII Types

Detector	Example	Validation
aadhaar	2345 6789 0123	12 digits, starts 2-9, space/hyphen/plain
pan	ABCPE1234F	AAAAA9999A format, valid entity code
phone	9876543210, [phone]	10 digits, starts 6-9, optional country code
email	[e-mail]	RFC-5321 compliant
upi_id	user@okaxis	VPA format, non-email handles only
credit_card	4111 1111 1111 1111	13-19 digits, Luhn algorithm validated
ifsc	HDFC0001234	4-alpha + 0 + 6-alphanumeric
ip_address	192.168.1.1, ::1	IPv4 (range-validated) and IPv6

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🧪 Running Tests

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/AtharvaUbhe46/DataCloak
cd datacloak

# Install dev dependencies
pip install -e ".[dev]"

# Run tests
pytest

# Run with coverage
pytest --cov=datacloak --cov-report=term-missing

Target: ≥ 85% coverage.

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📄 License

MIT License — Copyright © 2026 DataCloak Contributors.

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome! Please read the contributing guide and open a pull request.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch: git checkout -b feat/my-detector
3. Write your code and tests
4. Run pytest and ensure coverage stays ≥ 85%
5. Open a pull request

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DataCloak — because privacy is not optional.