VirusTotal/vt-cli
VirusTotal Command Line Interface
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 165 days ago, with 15 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 41% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a command-line interface to interact with VirusTotal's API for querying and managing file, URL, domain, and IP threat intelligence data.
- Enables comprehensive VirusTotal functionality from the terminal, including searching, scanning, downloading, and managing YARA rules without using the web interface.
- Use for automating malware analysis workflows by retrieving detailed reports and scanning files directly from scripts or terminals.
- Use for integrating VirusTotal threat intelligence into CI/CD pipelines to scan artifacts and URLs before deployment.
- Use for security researchers managing LiveHunt YARA rules and launching Retrohunt jobs to detect threats across large datasets.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
As this tool uses the VirusTotal API under the hood, you will need a VirusTotal API key. By signing up with VirusTotal you will receive a free API key however, free API keys have a limited amount of requests per minute, and they don't have access to some premium features like searches and file downloads. If you are interested in using those premium features please contact us.
There are two ways of installing the tool: by using one of our pre-compiled binaries or by building it by yourself.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
153+10
Open issues
15-1
Compared with peers in CLI
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vercel-labs/agent-desktop | 17.0K | +13.3K | 33 | today |
| mattpocock/skills | 315.4K | +8.7K | 35 | 7 days ago |
| stablyai/orca | 116.8K | +6.6K | 40 | today |
| obra/superpowers | 313.1K | +4.5K | 53 | 2 days ago |
| Panniantong/Agent-Reach | 109.3K | +3.0K | 60 | 4 days ago |
| VirusTotal/vt-cli | 1.5K | — | 25 | 165 days ago |
| Category median | 116.8K | +6.6K | 40 | — |
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