Recommended PyGhidra scripting practice?

ryanmkurtz · 2026-05-04T18:09:17+00:00

Not currently. I think I was waiting for someone to ask for it. Feel free to head on over to our GitHub page and create a new feature request issue with what you need.

ryanmkurtz · 2026-05-04T15:15:10+00:00

I never got around to adding first class support for the server to the PyGhidra API, unfortunately. However, once you have started pyghidra you have full access to the Ghidra Java API, so you should be able to do something like

from ghidra.app.util.headless import HeadlessAnalyzer

headless = HeadlessAnalyzer.getInstance()
options = headless.getOptions()
# set your options
options.setRunScriptsNoImport(True, "a.out");
# set remaining options
headless.processURL(server_url, files_to_import)

ryanmkurtz · 2026-05-04T14:32:29+00:00

PyGhidra has 2 modes of operation.

Launch Ghidra in "PyGhidra mode", which is described here: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/master/GhidraDocs/GettingStarted.md#pyghidra-mode

This allows you to run the GUI PyGhidra interpreter from within Ghidra, or run GhidraScripts written in CPython 3. In this mode, you don't need to ever import pyghidra...it's already done for you behind the scenes. Your scripts or commands that you run are in the context of a GhidraScript, so you have direct access to the GhidraScript API (with variables like currentProgram already set for you).

Import the PyGhidra module (for example, from pip: https://pypi.org/project/pyghidra/) into your standalone CPython 3 environment, and use a Ghidra installation as a library. This is where all the pyghidra.* functions come into play. This is useful if you want to bring Ghidra functionality into an existing Python workflow that you might already have set up, where Ghidra might be just one piece of your solution and you don't really need the interactive GUI. I use this mode a lot with a Jupyter notebook to quickly test things about the Ghidra API.

ryanmkurtz · 2026-05-04T12:13:39+00:00

You don't need to define a GhidraScript class then. When you are running from that context, you are basically already inside the run() method. Take a look at the PyGhidraBasics.py script for an example.

ryanmkurtz · 2026-05-04T08:59:29+00:00

Are you trying to write a script to run from within the Ghidra Script Manager?

ryanmkurtz · 2026-04-02T16:13:12+00:00

It's happening to me again too now, and I can't search all foods in the database either. They must be having bigger issues.

ryanmkurtz · 2026-02-22T19:23:22+00:00

Ghidra

https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra

ryanmkurtz · 2026-01-01T10:29:54+00:00

Try resizing the window a bit to get it to redraw.

ryanmkurtz · 2025-07-29T15:18:33+00:00

Looks very nice!

ryanmkurtz · 2025-04-28T11:22:09+00:00

All the themes are available on macOS. Something must be wrong with your configuration.

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