Socket CLI

CLI tool for Socket.dev

Usage

npm install -g socket

socket --help
socket info webtorrent@1.9.1
socket report create package.json --view
socket report view QXU8PmK7LfH608RAwfIKdbcHgwEd_ZeWJ9QEGv05FJUQ
socket wrapper --enable

Commands

Popular Commands

• socket npm [args...] and socket npx [args...] - Wraps npm and npx to integrate Socket and preempt installation of alerted packages using the builtin resolution of npm to precisely determine package installations.

• socket optimize - Optimize dependencies with @socketregistry overrides! (👀 our blog post)

  • --pin - Pin overrides to their latest version.
  • --prod - Add overrides for only production dependencies.

Other Commands

• socket cdxgen [command] - Call out to cdxgen. See their documentation for commands.

• socket info <package@version> - Look up issues for a package.

• socket raw-npm [args...] and socket raw-npx [args...] - Temporarily disable the Socket 'safe-npm' wrapper.

• socket report create <path(s)-to-folder-or-file> - Create a report on Socket.dev

  Upload the specified package.json and lock files for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependency manifests. If any folder is specified, the ones found in there recursively are uploaded.

  Glob patterns such as **/package.json, **/requirements.txt, **/pyproject.toml, and **/go.mod is supported.

  Intuitively ignores files matching your project's .gitignore, the projectIgnorePaths in your project's socket.yml, and a sensible set of default ignore patterns.

• socket report view <report-id> - Look up issues and scores from a report.

• socket wrapper --enable and socket wrapper --disable - Enable and disable the Socket 'safe-npm' wrapper.

Aliases

All aliases support the flags and arguments of the commands they alias.

• socket ci - alias for socket report create --view --strict which creates a report and quits with an exit code if the result is unhealthy. Use like eg. socket ci . for a report for the current folder

Flags

Command specific flags

• --view - when set on socket report create the command will immediately do a socket report view style view of the created report, waiting for the server to complete it

Output flags

• --json - outputs result as json which you can then pipe into jq and other tools
• --markdown - outputs result as markdown which you can then copy into an issue, PR or even chat

Strictness flags

• --all - by default only high and critical issues are included, by setting this flag all issues will be included
• --strict - when set, exits with an error code if report result is deemed unhealthy

Other flags

• --dry-run - like all CLI tools that perform an action should have, we have a dry run flag. Eg. socket report create supports running the command without actually uploading anything
• --debug - outputs additional debug output. Great for debugging, geeks and us who develop. Hopefully you will never need it, but it can still be fun, right?
• --help - prints the help for the current command. All CLI tools should have this flag
• --version - prints the version of the tool. All CLI tools should have this flag

Configuration files

The CLI reads and uses data from a socket.yml file in the folder you run it in. It supports the version 2 of the socket.yml file format and makes use of the projectIgnorePaths to excludes files when creating a report.

Environment variables

• SOCKET_SECURITY_API_KEY - if set, this will be used as the API-key

Contributing

Environment variables for development

• SOCKET_SECURITY_API_BASE_URL - if set, this will be the base for all API-calls. Defaults to https://api.socket.dev/v0/
• SOCKET_SECURITY_API_PROXY - if set to something like http://127.0.0.1:9090, then all request will be proxied through that proxy

Similar projects

• @socketsecurity/sdk - the SDK used in this CLI

See also

• Announcement blog post
• Socket API Reference - the API used in this CLI
• Socket GitHub App - the plug-and-play GitHub App