R2pipe

The r2pipe api was initially designed for NodeJS in order to support reusing the web's r2.js API from the commandline. The r2pipe module permits interacting with r2 instances in different methods:

  • spawn pipes (r2 -0)
  • http queries (cloud friendly)
  • tcp socket (r2 -c)
         pipe spawn async http tcp rap json
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Examples

Here there are some examples about scripting with r2pipe in different languages

Python

$ pip install r2pipe
import r2pipe

r2 = r2pipe.open("/bin/ls")
r2.cmd('aa')
print(r2.cmd("afl"))
print(r2.cmdj("aflj"))  # evaluates JSONs and returns an object

NodeJS

Use this command to install the r2pipe bindings

$ npm install r2pipe

Here's a sample hello world

const r2pipe = require('r2pipe');
r2pipe.open('/bin/ls', (err, res) => {
  if (err) {
  throw err;
  }
  r2.cmd ('af @ entry0', function (o) {
  r2.cmd ("pdf @ entry0", function (o) {
    console.log (o);
    r.quit ()
  });
  });
});

Checkout the GIT repository for more examples and details.

https://github.com/radareorg/radare2-r2pipe/blob/master/nodejs/r2pipe/README.md

Go

$ r2pm -i r2pipe-go

https://github.com/radare/r2pipe-go

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "github.com/radare/r2pipe-go"
)
func main() {
  r2p, err := r2pipe.NewPipe("/bin/ls")
  if err != nil {
    panic(err)
  }
  defer r2p.Close()
  buf1, err := r2p.Cmd("?E Hello World")
  if err != nil {
    panic(err)
  }
  fmt.Println(buf1)
}

Rust

$ cat Cargo.toml
...
[dependencies]
r2pipe = "*"
#[macro_use]
extern crate r2pipe;
use r2pipe::R2Pipe;
fn main() {
  let mut r2p = open_pipe!(Some("/bin/ls")).unwrap();
  println!("{:?}", r2p.cmd("?e Hello World"));
  let json = r2p.cmdj("ij").unwrap();
  println!("{}", serde_json::to_string_pretty(&json).unwrap());
  println!("ARCH {}", json["bin"]["arch"]);
  r2p.close();
}

Ruby

$ gem install r2pipe
require 'r2pipe'
puts 'r2pipe ruby api demo'
puts '===================='
r2p = R2Pipe.new '/bin/ls'
puts r2p.cmd 'pi 5'
puts r2p.cmd 'pij 1'
puts r2p.json(r2p.cmd 'pij 1')
puts r2p.cmd 'px 64'
r2p.quit

Perl

#!/usr/bin/perl

use R2::Pipe;
use strict;

my $r = R2::Pipe->new ("/bin/ls");
print $r->cmd ("pd 5")."\n";
print $r->cmd ("px 64")."\n";
$r->quit ();

Erlang

#!/usr/bin/env escript
%% -*- erlang -*-
%%! -smp enable

%% -sname hr
-mode(compile).

-export([main/1]).

main(_Args) ->
  %% adding r2pipe to modulepath, set it to your r2pipe_erl location
  R2pipePATH = filename:dirname(escript:script_name()) ++ "/ebin",
  true = code:add_pathz(R2pipePATH),

  %% initializing the link with r2
  H = r2pipe:init(lpipe),

  %% all work goes here
  io:format("~s", [r2pipe:cmd(H, "i")]).

Haskell

import R2pipe
import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as L

showMainFunction ctx = do
  cmd ctx "s main"
  L.putStr =<< cmd ctx "pD `fl $$`"

main = do
  -- Run r2 locally
  open "/bin/ls" >>= showMainFunction
  -- Connect to r2 via HTTP (e.g. if "r2 -qc=h /bin/ls" is running)
  open "http://127.0.0.1:9090" >>= showMainFunction

Dotnet

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using r2pipe;
namespace LocalExample {
  class Program {
    static void Main(string[] args) {
#if __MonoCS__
      using(IR2Pipe pipe = new R2Pipe("/bin/ls")) {
#else
      using (IR2Pipe pipe = new R2Pipe(@"C:\Windows\notepad.exe",
        @"C:\radare2\radare2.exe")) {
#endif
        Console.WriteLine("Hello r2! " + pipe.RunCommand("?V"));
        Task<string> async = pipe.RunCommandAsync("?V");
        Console.WriteLine("Hello async r2!" + async.Result);
        QueuedR2Pipe qr2 = new QueuedR2Pipe(pipe);
        qr2.Enqueue(new R2Command("x", (string result) => {
             Console.WriteLine("Result of x:\n {0}", result); }));
        qr2.Enqueue(new R2Command("pi 10", (string result) => {
             Console.WriteLine("Result of pi 10:\n {0}", result); }));
        qr2.ExecuteCommands();
      }
    }
  }
}

Java

import org.radare.r2pipe.R2Pipe;

public class Test {
  public static void main (String[] args) {
    try {
      R2Pipe r2p = new R2Pipe ("/bin/ls");
      // new R2Pipe ("http://cloud.rada.re/cmd/", true);
      System.out.println (r2p.cmd ("pd 10"));
      System.out.println (r2p.cmd ("px 32"));
      r2p.quit();
    } catch (Exception e) {
      System.err.println (e);
    }
  }
}

Swift

if let r2p = R2Pipe(url:nil) {
  r2p.cmd ("?V", closure:{
    (str:String?) in
    if let s = str {
      print ("Version: \(s)");
      exit (0);
    } else {
      debugPrint ("R2PIPE. Error");
      exit (1);
    }
  });
  NSRunLoop.currentRunLoop().run();
} else {
  print ("Needs to run from r2")
}

Vala

public static int main (string[] args) {
  MainLoop loop = new MainLoop ();
  var r2p = new R2Pipe ("/bin/ls");
  r2p.cmd ("pi 4", (x) => {
    stdout.printf ("Disassembly:\n%s\n", x);
    r2p.cmd ("ie", (x) => {
      stdout.printf ("Entrypoint:\n%s\n", x);
      r2p.cmd ("q");
    });
  });
  ChildWatch.add (r2p.child_pid, (pid, status) => {
    Process.close_pid (pid);
    loop.quit ();
  });
  loop.run ();
  return 0;
}

NewLisp

(load "r2pipe.lsp")
(println "pd 3:\n" (r2pipe:cmd "pd 3"))
(exit)

Dlang

import std.stdio;
import r2pipe;

void main() {
   auto r2 = r2pipe.open ();
   writeln ("Hello "~ r2.cmd("?e World"));
   writeln ("Hello "~ r2.cmd("?e Works"));

   string uri = r2.cmdj("ij")["core"]["uri"].str;
   writeln ("Uri: ",uri);
}