fsaudit 0.8.1

Filesystem audit tool — scan, classify, analyze, and report on directory contents

FSAudit

Filesystem audit tool that scans, classifies, analyzes, and generates Excel reports from directory metadata.

FSAudit operates exclusively on filesystem metadata (timestamps, sizes, permissions) -- it never reads file contents. The tool is read-only by design and requires no elevated privileges.

Features

• Recursive directory scanning with depth limits and exclusion patterns
• Extension-based file classification into semantic categories
• Temporal analysis: monthly distribution, inactive file detection
• Volume analysis: per-category and per-directory breakdowns
• Alert detection: empty files, empty directories, hidden files, duplicate names
• Multi-sheet Excel report with KPI dashboard
• Cross-platform support (Linux and Windows)

Installation

pip install .

For development:

pip install -e ".[dev]"

Requires Python 3.10+.

Usage

Basic audit of a directory:

fsaudit --path ~/Documents

Custom output directory and depth limit:

fsaudit --path ~/Projects --output-dir ~/reports --depth 5

Exclude patterns and filter small files:

fsaudit --path ~/work --exclude node_modules --exclude .git --min-size 1024

Set inactive threshold and enable debug logging:

fsaudit --path /home/user --inactive-days 180 --log-level DEBUG --log-file audit.log

Output file naming

Reports are saved as {folder_name}_audit_{YYYY-MM-DD}.xlsx. For example, auditing ~/Documents on 2026-03-29 produces:

Documents_audit_2026-03-29.xlsx

CLI Flags

Flag	Required	Default	Description
--path	Yes	--	Root directory to audit
--output-dir	No	. (current directory)	Directory for the output report
--depth	No	Unlimited	Maximum recursion depth
--exclude	No	None	Directory/file patterns to exclude (repeatable)
--min-size	No	0	Minimum file size in bytes to include
--inactive-days	No	365	Days without modification to classify a file as inactive
--log-level	No	INFO	Logging verbosity: DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR
--log-file	No	None (stderr only)	Path to log file

Excel Report Sheets

The generated .xlsx workbook contains 8 sheets:

Sheet	Content
Dashboard	KPI overview: total files, total size, category counts
Por Categoria	File count and size breakdown by category
Timeline	Monthly distribution of files by modification date
Top Archivos Pesados	Largest files ranked by size
Archivos Inactivos	Files not modified within the inactive-days threshold
Alertas	Warnings: empty files, empty directories, hidden files, duplicate names
Por Directorio	Top directories ranked by total volume
Inventario Completo	Full file listing with all metadata and autofilter

File Categories

Files are classified by extension into these categories:

Category	Extensions (sample)
Oficina	.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, .pdf, .csv, .odt, .ods, .rtf
Codigo	.py, .js, .ts, .java, .go, .rs, .html, .css, .json, .yaml, .md
Multimedia	.jpg, .png, .gif, .svg, .mp4, .mp3, .wav, .mkv, .webm
Datos	.db, .sqlite, .parquet, .arrow, .pickle, .h5, .hdf5
Comprimidos	.zip, .tar, .gz, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .7z, .rar
Ejecutables	.exe, .msi, .deb, .rpm, .appimage, .bat, .ps1
Sistema	.log, .ini, .cfg, .conf, .env, .lock, .tmp, .bak
SinExtension	Files with no extension
Unclassified	Any extension not matching the above

The full mapping is defined in src/fsaudit/classifier/categories.yaml.

Architecture

FSAudit implements a modular pipeline pattern where each stage is stateless and independently testable:

CLI --> Scanner --> Classifier --> Analyzer --> Reporter

Module	Responsibility
cli.py	Argument parsing, input validation, pipeline orchestration
scanner/	Recursive filesystem walk, metadata extraction, platform-aware timestamps
classifier/	Extension-to-category mapping from YAML config
analyzer/	Metric computation: category stats, timeline, top files, inactive detection, alerts
reporter/	Excel workbook generation via openpyxl

src/fsaudit/
    __init__.py
    cli.py
    logging_config.py
    analyzer/
        analyzer.py
        metrics.py
    classifier/
        classifier.py
        categories.yaml
    reporter/
        base.py
        excel_reporter.py
    scanner/
        scanner.py
        models.py
        platform_utils.py

Development

Run tests:

pytest

Run tests with coverage:

pytest --cov=fsaudit

License

TBD