🛡️ PhishGuard – AI Phishing Detection API

PhishGuard is a lightweight FastAPI-based API that detects phishing attempts using both URL structure and email content, powered by a trained machine learning model.

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🚀 Features

• 🔍 Detect phishing using:
  • URL features (length, digits, suspicious keywords, etc.)
  • Natural Language Processing (TF-IDF) on email content
• ⚙️ FastAPI backend
• 🤖 Trained RandomForest model (41 input features)
• 🌐 Public API endpoint (deployed via Render)

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🧠 How it Works

🧾 Input (JSON):

{
  "url": "http://secure-login-paypal.com",
  "email_text": "URGENT! Your account is locked! Click here to unlock."
}

📤 Output (JSON):

{
  "label": "phishing",
  "confidence": 0.78
}

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🌐 Live Demo & API Access

Use the following hosted links to explore and test PhishGuard in real-time:

• 📘 Swagger UI (Test API in browser)
  https://phishguard-api-89n2.onrender.com/docs

• ⚙️ Base API Endpoint (for POST requests only)
  https://phishguard-api-89n2.onrender.com/predict
  Note: This URL only accepts POST requests. It will return an error if opened directly in the browser.

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📦 GitHub Repository

• 🔗 GitHub Repo:
  https://github.com/tanimrahman10/phishguard-api

Feel free to ⭐️ star the project or fork it!

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🧪 Example Request (Using Swagger or Postman)

Use this sample JSON to test phishing detection:

{
  "url": "http://secure-login-paypal.com",
  "email_text": "URGENT! Your account is locked! Click to unlock now."
}