vt_collection.md
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vt collection
Get information about collections
Synopsis
Get information about one or more collections.
This command receives one or more collection IDs and returns information about them. The information for each collection is returned in the same order as the collections are passed to the command.
If the command receives a single hypen (-) the collection will be read from the standard input, one per line.
vt collection [collection]... [flags]
Examples
vt collection malpedia_win_emotet
vt collection malpedia_win_emotet alienvault_603eb1abdd4812819c64e197
cat list_of_collections | vt collection -n [collection_name] -d [collection_description] -
Options
-x, --exclude strings exclude fields matching the provided pattern
-h, --help help for collection
-I, --identifiers-only print identifiers only
-i, --include strings include fields matching the provided pattern (default [**])
-t, --threads int number of threads working in parallel (default 5)
Options inherited from parent commands
-k, --apikey string API key
--format string Output format (yaml/json/csv) (default "yaml")
-s, --silent Silent or quiet mode. Do not show progress meter
-v, --verbose verbose output
SEE ALSO
- vt - A command-line tool for interacting with VirusTotal
- vt collection associations - Collection's related collections (associations).
- vt collection attack_techniques - Collection's ATT&CK techniques.
- vt collection autogenerated_graphs - Autogenerated graphs related to the collection.
- vt collection campaigns - Collection's related campaigns.
- vt collection collections - Collection's related collections.
- vt collection comments - Comments for the collection.
- vt collection create - Create a collection.
- vt collection delete - Delete a collection.
- vt collection domains - Collection's domains.
- vt collection files - Collection's files.
- vt collection ip_addresses - Collection's IP addresses.
- vt collection malware_families - Collection's related malware families.
- vt collection owner - Owner of the collection.
- vt collection references - Collection's references.
- vt collection related_collections - Returns the Collections containing IOCs which are in this Collection.
- vt collection related_references - Returns the References of the IOCs in this Collection.
- vt collection related_reports - Collection's related reports
- vt collection relationships - Get all relationships.
- vt collection remove - Remove items from a collection.
- vt collection rename - Rename collection.
- vt collection reports - Collection's related reports.
- vt collection software_toolkits - Collection's related software toolkits.
- vt collection subscription_preferences - Subscription preference for the given user.
- vt collection threat_actors - Collection's related threat actors.
- vt collection update - Add new items to a collection.
- vt collection urls - Collection's URLs.
- vt collection vulnerabilities - Collection's related vulnerabilities.