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Last updated 7 months ago

Existing Customers: Upgrade to Safety 3.0

Safety 3.0 is now available, providing system-wide scanning, unpinned package support, new SBOM and JSON output formats, and more.

Safety 2 is the previous iteration of our industry-leading Python dependency scanner. Safety is the best way to check your Python dependencies for security vulnerabilities and other compliance risks. It's our swiss-army knife tool that can be used in a variety of ways and situations, from securing developer machines, to build pipelines and production systems.

Installation

Safety is available for . You can install Safety CLI directly from PyPi using the following pip command:

pip install safety

Getting started

Once install, you can run a vulnerability scan on your Python dependencies in your current environment.

safety check --key <YOUR-API-KEY>

Or scan the dependencies in a particular requirements file:

safety check -r requirements.txt --key <YOUR-API-KEY>

download from PyPi