Scan your data stores for unencrypted personal data (PII)

• Last names
• Email addresses
• IP addresses
• Street addresses (US)
• Phone numbers (US)
• Credit card numbers
• Social security numbers
• Dates of birth
• Location data
• OAuth tokens

Uses data sampling and naming, and works with compressed files

💥 Zero runtime dependencies and minimal database load

Download the latest version.

• Mac
• Linux
• Windows

Unzip and follow the instructions below for your data store.

On Mac, you can also use:

brew install ankane/brew/pdscan

• Files
• MySQL & MariaDB
• Postgres
• SQLite
• S3
• Others

pdscan file://path/to/file.txt

You can also specify a directory.

pdscan file://path/to/directory

For absolute paths, use file:///.

pdscan mysql://user:pass@host:3306/dbname

pdscan postgres://user:pass@host:5432/dbname

If your connection doesn’t use SSL, append to the URI:

?sslmode=disable

For best sampling, enable the tsm_system_rows extension (ships with Postgres 9.5+).

CREATE EXTENSION tsm_system_rows;

pdscan sqlite:/path/to/dbname.sqlite3

pdscan s3://bucket/path/to/file.txt

Requires s3:GetObject permission

You can also specify a prefix by ending with a /.

pdscan s3://bucket/path/to/directory/

Requires s3:ListBucket and s3:GetObject permissions

Feel free to submit a PR

Show data found

pdscan --show-data

Show low confidence matches

pdscan --show-all

Change sample size

pdscan --sample-size 50000

Specify number of processes to use (defaults to 1)

pdscan --processes 4

• Add more data stores (SQL Server, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Memcached, Redis)
• Improve rules
• Highlight matches
• Add more output formats, like JSON and CSV

View the changelog

Everyone is encouraged to help improve this project. Here are a few ways you can help:

• Report bugs
• Fix bugs and submit pull requests
• Write, clarify, or fix documentation
• Suggest or add new features

To get started with development:

git clone https://github.com/ankane/pdscan.git
cd pdscan
make test