WraithWatch

Inspiration

While on Discord with my friends, one of them received a scam message in their message requests — a message that looked strangely familiar. He mentioned he’d been getting the same type of scam for the past two months. That moment sparked an idea: what if there was a bot that could detect, analyze, and warn us about these threats in real-time? That’s how WraithWatch was born — a tool to help communities stay informed and protected from online privacy and security threats.

What It Does

WraithWatch is a Discord bot that monitors, analyzes, and summarizes real-world privacy and security incidents from Reddit and the web. Using AI (powered by Groq’s LLaMA 3.1 model), it delivers concise summaries, threat tags, and even actionable security tips right in your Discord server.
Key features include:

Real-time monitoring of high-risk subreddits (r/privacy, r/hacking, r/scams)
Smart summaries and AI-driven analysis of incidents
A blog-search tool that gathers and summarizes external blog articles
Seamless interaction through Discord slash commands

How We Built It

Language: Python
Bot Framework: discord.py
Web Scraping: BeautifulSoup4 for Reddit and blog posts
AI Integration: Groq API with llama-3.1-8b-instant
Task Scheduling: Background loops to check and respond to new Reddit posts
Commands: Custom slash commands for monitoring, asking questions, pinging the bot, and searching blogs

Challenges We Ran Into

Scraping Reddit: Old Reddit was used (old.reddit.com) for easier scraping, but we faced rate limits, inconsistent formatting, and had to carefully parse different post types.
Searching for Relevant Blog Posts: Finding accurate and up-to-date blog posts through search engines, then scraping just the relevant article content was a tricky process. We had to build logic to clean, extract, and summarize them using AI.

Accomplishments That We're Proud Of

Built an AI-powered bot that integrates multiple complex features in one clean UX
Created a working blog search + summarization pipeline
Delivered real-time Reddit monitoring with threat tagging and summaries
Deployed a useful, meaningful tool that can actually help people stay safe online