nightfall 0.4.0

Python SDK for Nightfall

Nightfall Python SDK

This is a python SDK for working with the Nightfall API.

Installation

This module requires Python 3.6 or higher.

pip install nightfall

Quickstart

Make a new API Token and Detection Rule Set in Nightfall and store the values as environment variables.

from nightfall import Nightfall

nightfall = Nightfall(
    os.getenv('NIGHTFALL_TOKEN'),
    os.getenv('NIGHTFALL_CONDITION_SET')
    )

response = nightfall.scan(['test string'])

print(response)

Contributing

Please create an issue with a description of your problem, or open a pull request with the fix.

Development

Installing Development Dependencies

If you want to hack on this project, you should set up your local development environment with the following commands:

1. Fork and clone this repo and open a terminal with the root of this repository in your working directory.
2. Create and activate a virtualenv python3 -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate
3. Install development dependencies with pip install -r dev-requirements.txt
4. Install an editable version of this package pip install -e .

Run Unit Tests

Unit tests can be found in the tests/ directory. You can run them with make test. Be sure to have NIGHTFALL_TOKEN and NIGHTFALL_CONDITION_SET set as environment variables before running the tests.

View Code Coverage

You can view the code coverage report by running coverage html and python3 -m http.server --directory htmlcov after running the unit tests.

SDK Documentation

The SDK is documented using the Sphinx library. You can generatre the developer documentation using make docs and preview it on localhost:8000 by running python3 -m http.server --directory docs/_build/html.

Creating a Release

Releases are automatically published to PyPI using GitHub Actions. Creating a release in GitHub will trigger a new build that will publish the latest version of this library to PyPI.

The steps to do this are:

1. Add what changed to the CHANGELOG file.
2. Update the version in setup.py
3. Commit changes and push to the main branch.
4. Create a new release in the GitHub UI.
5. Observe the release action succeed and see the latest version of this library on PyPI.

License

MIT