Tartufo API – Configuration, Rules, And Scanning Capabilities

Dive into the world of Tartufo, a powerful tool designed for scanning and managing security vulnerabilities through regular expressions.

This article offers a comprehensive API reference guide for all public classes and functions within Tartufo, from configuring scans to compiling and applying rules.

Learn how to effectively utilize Tartufo to enhance your security protocols and streamline your codebase examination process.

This part of the documentation lists the full API reference of all public classes and functions.

tartufo.config

tartufo.config.compile_path_rules(patterns)

Take a list of regex strings and compile them into patterns.

Any line starting with # will be ignored.Parameters

patterns (Iterable[str]) – The list of patterns to be compiledReturn type

List[Pattern]

tartufo.config.compile_rules(patterns)

Take a list of regex string with paths and compile them into a List of Rule.Parameters

patterns (Iterable[Dict[str, str]]) – The list of patterns to be compiledReturn type

List[Rule]Returns

List of Rule objects

tartufo.config.configure_regexes(include_default=True, rule_patterns=None, rules_repo=None, rules_repo_files=None)

Build a set of regular expressions to be used during a regex scan.Parameters

• include_default (bool) – Whether to include the built-in set of regexes
• rules_files – A list of files to load rules from
• rule_patterns (Optional[Iterable[Dict[str, str]]]) – A set of previously-collected rules
• rules_repo (Optional[str]) – A separate git repository to load rules from
• rules_repo_files (Optional[Iterable[str]]) – A set of patterns used to find files in the rules repo

Return type

Set[Rule]Returns

Set of Rule objects to be used for regex scans

tartufo.config.load_config_from_path(config_path, filename=None, traverse=True)

Scan a path for a configuration file, and return its contents.

All key names are normalized to remove leading “-“/”–” and replace “-” with “_”. For example, “–repo-path” becomes “repo_path”.

In addition to checking the specified path, if traverse is True, this will traverse up through the directory structure, looking for a configuration file in parent directories. For example, given this directory structure:

working_dir/
|- tartufo.toml
|- group1/
|  |- project1/
|  |  |- tartufo.toml
|  |- project2/
|- group2/
   |- tartufo.toml
   |- project1/
   |- project2/
      |- tartufo.toml

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