Getting Help from the Command Line

ScanCode-Toolkit Command Line Interface can help you to search for specific options or use cases from the command line itself. These are two options are --help and --examples, and are very helpful if you need a quick glance of the options or use cases. Or it can be useful when you can’t access, the more elaborate online documentation.

All Documentation/Help Options

-h, --help

Show the Help text and exit.

--examples

Show the Command Examples Text and exit.

--about

Show information about ScanCode and licensing and exit.

--version

Show the version and exit.

--list-packages

Show the list of supported package types and exit.

--plugins

Show the list of available ScanCode plugins and exit.

--print-options

Show the list of selected options and exit.

Help text

The Scancode-Toolkit Command Line Interface has a Help option displaying all the options. It also displays basic usage, and some simple examples. The command line option for this is --help.

Tip

You can also use the shorter -h option, which does the same.

For Linux based systems the full command is:

$ ./scancode --help

And for windows, it will be like:

$ scancode --help

Note

Make sure you are in the Scancode Root Directory before carrying out this command. After extracting the .zip or .tar.bz file, the folder for Scancode-Toolkit version 3.1.1 will be named like “scancode-toolkit-3.1.1”.

The Following Help Text is displayed, i.e. This is the help text for Scancode Version 3.1.1

Usage: scancode [OPTIONS] <OUTPUT FORMAT OPTION(s)> <input>...

scan the <input> file or directory for license, origin and packages
and save results to FILE(s) using one or more output format option.

Error and progress are printed to stderr.

Options:

primary scans:
  -l, --license    Scan <input> for licenses.
  -p, --package    Scan <input> for package manifests and packages.
  -c, --copyright  Scan <input> for copyrights.

other scans:
  -i, --info   Scan <input> for file information (size, checksums, etc).
  --generated  Classify automatically generated code files with a flag.
  -e, --email  Scan <input> for emails.
  -u, --url    Scan <input> for urls.

scan options:
  --license-score INTEGER      Do not return license matches with a
                               score lower than this score. A number
                               between 0 and 100.  [default: 0]
  --license-text               Include the detected licenses matched
                               text.
  --license-text-diagnostics   In the matched license text, include
                               diagnostic highlights surrounding with
                               square brackets [] words that are not
                               matched.
  --license-url-template TEXT  Set the template URL used for the license
                               reference URLs. Curly braces ({}) are
                               replaced by the license key.  [default: h
                               ttps://enterprise.dejacode.com/urn/urn:dj
                               e:license:{}]
  --max-email INT              Report only up to INT emails found in a
                               file. Use 0 for no limit.  [default: 50]
  --max-url INT                Report only up to INT urls found in a
                               file. Use 0 for no limit.  [default: 50]

output formats:
  --json FILE             Write scan output as compact JSON to FILE.
  --json-pp FILE          Write scan output as pretty-printed JSON to
                          FILE.
  --json-lines FILE       Write scan output as JSON Lines to FILE.
  --csv FILE              Write scan output as CSV to FILE.
  --html FILE             Write scan output as HTML to FILE.
  --custom-output FILE    Write scan output to FILE formatted with the
                          custom Jinja template file.
  --custom-template FILE  Use this Jinja template FILE as a custom
                          template.
  --spdx-rdf FILE         Write scan output as SPDX RDF to FILE.
  --spdx-tv FILE          Write scan output as SPDX Tag/Value to FILE.
  --html-app FILE         (DEPRECATED: use the ScanCode Workbench app
                          instead ) Write scan output as a mini HTML
                          application to FILE.

output filters:
  --ignore-author <pattern>       Ignore a file (and all its findings)
                                  if an author contains a match to the
                                  <pattern> regular expression. Note
                                  that this will ignore a file even if
                                  it has other findings such as a
                                  license or errors.
  --ignore-copyright-holder <pattern>
                                  Ignore a file (and all its findings)
                                  if a copyright holder contains a match
                                  to the <pattern> regular expression.
                                  Note that this will ignore a file even
                                  if it has other scanned data such as a
                                  license or errors.
  --only-findings                 Only return files or directories with
                                  findings for the requested scans.
                                  Files and directories without findings
                                  are omitted (file information is not
                                  treated as findings).

output control:
  --full-root   Report full, absolute paths.
  --strip-root  Strip the root directory segment of all paths. The
                default is to always include the last directory segment
                of the scanned path such that all paths have a common
                root directory.

pre-scan:
  --ignore <pattern>         Ignore files matching <pattern>.
  --include <pattern>        Include files matching <pattern>.
  --classify                 Classify files with flags telling if the
                             file is a legal, or readme or test file,
                             etc.
  --facet <facet>=<pattern>  Add the <facet> to files with a path
                             matching <pattern>.

post-scan:
  --consolidate            Group resources by Packages or license and
                           copyright holder and return those groupings
                           as a list of consolidated packages and a list
                           of consolidated components. This requires the
                           scan to have/be run with the copyright,
                           license, and package options active
  --filter-clues           Filter redundant duplicated clues already
                           contained in detected license and copyright
                           texts and notices.
  --is-license-text        Set the "is_license_text" flag to true for
                           files that contain mostly license texts and
                           notices (e.g over 90% of the content).
                           [EXPERIMENTAL]
  --license-clarity-score  Compute a summary license clarity score at
                           the codebase level.
  --license-policy FILE    Load a License Policy file and apply it to
                           the scan at the Resource level.
  --mark-source            Set the "is_source" to true for directories
                           that contain over 90% of source files as
                           children and descendants. Count the number of
                           source files in a directory as a new
                           source_file_counts attribute
  --summary                Summarize license, copyright and other scans
                           at the codebase level.
  --summary-by-facet       Summarize license, copyright and other scans
                           and group the results by facet.
  --summary-key-files      Summarize license, copyright and other scans
                           for key, top-level files. Key files are top-
                           level codebase files such as COPYING, README
                           and package manifests as reported by the
                           --classify option "is_legal", "is_readme",
                           "is_manifest" and "is_top_level" flags.
  --summary-with-details   Summarize license, copyright and other scans
                           at the codebase level, keeping intermediate
                           details at the file and directory level.

core:
  --timeout <secs>         Stop an unfinished file scan after a timeout
                           in seconds.  [default: 120 seconds]
  -n, --processes INT      Set the number of parallel processes to use.
                           Disable parallel processing if 0. Also
                           disable threading if -1. [default: 1]
  --quiet                  Do not print summary or progress.
  --verbose                Print progress as file-by-file path instead
                           of a progress bar. Print verbose scan
                           counters.
  --from-json              Load codebase from an existing JSON scan
  --max-in-memory INTEGER  Maximum number of files and directories scan
                           details kept in memory during a scan.
                           Additional files and directories scan details
                           above this number are cached on-disk rather
                           than in memory. Use 0 to use unlimited memory
                           and disable on-disk caching. Use -1 to use
                           only on-disk caching.  [default: 10000]

miscellaneous:
  --reindex-licenses  Check the license index cache and reindex if
                      needed and exit.

documentation:
  -h, --help       Show this message and exit.
  --about          Show information about ScanCode and licensing and
                   exit.
  --version        Show the version and exit.
  --examples       Show command examples and exit.
  --list-packages  Show the list of supported package types and exit.
  --plugins        Show the list of available ScanCode plugins and exit.
  --print-options  Show the list of selected options and exit.

Examples (use --examples for more):

Scan the 'samples' directory for licenses and copyrights.
Save scan results to the 'scancode_result.json' JSON file:

    scancode --license --copyright --json-pp scancode_result.json
    samples

Scan the 'samples' directory for licenses and package manifests. Print scan
results on screen as pretty-formatted JSON (using the special '-' FILE to print
to on screen/to stdout):

    scancode --json-pp - --license --package  samples

Note: when you run scancode, a progress bar is displayed with a
counter of the number of files processed. Use --verbose to display
file-by-file progress.

Command Examples Text

The Scancode-Toolkit Command Line Interface has an --examples option which displays some basic examples (more than the basic synopsis in --help). These examples include the following aspects of code scanning:

  • Scanning Single File/Directory

  • Output Scan results to stdout (as JSON) or HTML/JSON file

  • Scanning for only Copyrights/Licenses

  • Ignoring Files

  • Using GLOB Patterns to Scan Multiple Files

  • Using Verbose Mode

The command line option for displaying these basic examples is --examples.

For Linux based systems the full command is:

$ ./scancode --examples

And for windows, it will be like:

$ scancode --examples

The Following Text is displayed, i.e. This is the examples for Scancode Version 3.1.1

Scancode command lines examples:

(Note for Windows: use '\' back slash instead of '/' forward slash for paths.)

Scan a single file for copyrights. Print scan results to stdout as pretty JSON:

    scancode --copyright samples/zlib/zlib.h --json-pp -

Scan a single file for licenses, print verbose progress to stderr as each
file is scanned. Save scan to a JSON file:

    scancode --license --verbose samples/zlib/zlib.h --json licenses.json

Scan a directory explicitly for licenses and copyrights. Redirect JSON scan
results to a file:

    scancode --license --copyright samples/zlib/ --json - > scan.json

Scan a directory while ignoring a single file. Scan for license, copyright and
package manifests. Use four parallel processes.
Print scan results to stdout as pretty formatted JSON.

    scancode -lc --package --ignore README --processes 4 --json-pp - samples/

Scan a directory while ignoring all files with .txt extension.
Print scan results to stdout as pretty formatted JSON.
It is recommended to use quotes around glob patterns to prevent pattern
expansion by the shell:

    scancode --json-pp - --ignore "*.txt" samples/

Special characters supported in GLOB pattern:
- *       matches everything
- ?       matches any single character
- [seq]   matches any character in seq
- [!seq]  matches any character not in seq

For a literal match, wrap the meta-characters in brackets.
For example, '[?]' matches the character '?'.
For details on GLOB patterns see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_(programming).

Note: Glob patterns cannot be applied to path as strings.
For example, this will not ignore "samples/JGroups/licenses".

    scancode --json - --ignore "samples*licenses" samples/


Scan a directory while ignoring multiple files (or glob patterns).
Print the scan results to stdout as JSON:

    scancode --json - --ignore README --ignore "*.txt" samples/

Scan a directory for licenses and copyrights. Save scan results to an
HTML file:

    scancode --license --copyright --html scancode_result.html samples/zlib

To extract archives, see the 'extractcode' command instead.

Plugins Help Text

The command line option for displaying all the plugins is:

  • --plugins

For Linux based systems the full command is:

$ ./scancode --plugins

And for windows, it will be like:

$ scancode --plugins

Note

Plugins that are shown by using --plugins include the following:

  1. Post-Scan Plugins

  2. Pre-Scan Plugins

  3. Output Options

  4. Output Control

  5. Basic Scan Options

The Following Text is displayed, i.e. This is the available plugins for Scancode Version 3.1.1

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Plugin: scancode_output:csv  class: formattedcode.output_csv:CsvOutput
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes:
  sort_order: 100
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: output formats, name: csv: --csv
      help: Write scan output as CSV to FILE.
  doc: None

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Plugin: scancode_output:html  class: formattedcode.output_html:HtmlOutput
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes:
  sort_order: 100
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: output formats, name: html: --html
      help: Write scan output as HTML to FILE.
  doc: None

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Plugin: scancode_output:html-app  class: formattedcode.output_html:HtmlAppOutput
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes:
  sort_order: 100
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: output formats, name: html_app: --html-app
      help: (DEPRECATED: use the ScanCode Workbench app instead ) Write scan output as a mini HTML application to FILE.
  doc:
    Write scan output as a mini HTML application.

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Plugin: scancode_output:json  class: formattedcode.output_json:JsonCompactOutput
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes:
  sort_order: 100
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: output formats, name: output_json: --json
      help: Write scan output as compact JSON to FILE.
  doc: None

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Plugin: scancode_output:json-pp  class: formattedcode.output_json:JsonPrettyOutput
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes:
  sort_order: 100
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: output formats, name: output_json_pp: --json-pp
      help: Write scan output as pretty-printed JSON to FILE.
  doc: None

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Plugin: scancode_output:jsonlines  class: formattedcode.output_jsonlines:JsonLinesOutput
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes:
  sort_order: 100
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: output formats, name: output_json_lines: --json-lines
      help: Write scan output as JSON Lines to FILE.
  doc: None

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Plugin: scancode_output:spdx-rdf  class: formattedcode.output_spdx:SpdxRdfOutput
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes:
  sort_order: 100
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: output formats, name: spdx_rdf: --spdx-rdf
      help: Write scan output as SPDX RDF to FILE.
  doc: None

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Plugin: scancode_output:spdx-tv  class: formattedcode.output_spdx:SpdxTvOutput
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes:
  sort_order: 100
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: output formats, name: spdx_tv: --spdx-tv
      help: Write scan output as SPDX Tag/Value to FILE.
  doc: None

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Plugin: scancode_output:template  class: formattedcode.output_html:CustomTemplateOutput
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes:
  sort_order: 100
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: output formats, name: custom_output: --custom-output
      help: Write scan output to FILE formatted with the custom Jinja template file.
    help_group: output formats, name: custom_template: --custom-template
      help: Use this Jinja template FILE as a custom template.
  doc: None

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Plugin: scancode_output_filter:ignore-copyrights  class: cluecode.plugin_ignore_copyrights:IgnoreCopyrights
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes:
  sort_order: 100
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: output filters, name: ignore_copyright_holder: --ignore-copyright-holder
      help: Ignore a file (and all its findings) if a copyright holder contains a match to the <pattern> regular expression. Note that this will ignore a file even if it has other scanned data such as a license or errors.
    help_group: output filters, name: ignore_author: --ignore-author
      help: Ignore a file (and all its findings) if an author contains a match to the <pattern> regular expression. Note that this will ignore a file even if it has other findings such as a license or errors.
  doc:
    Filter findings that match given copyright holder or author patterns.
    Has no effect unless the --copyright scan is requested.

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Plugin: scancode_output_filter:only-findings  class: scancode.plugin_only_findings:OnlyFindings
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes:
  sort_order: 100
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: output filters, name: only_findings: --only-findings
      help: Only return files or directories with findings for the requested scans. Files and directories without findings are omitted (file information is not treated as findings).
  doc:
    Filter files or directories without scan findings for the requested scans.

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Plugin: scancode_post_scan:classify-package  class: summarycode.classify:PackageTopAndKeyFilesTagger
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes:
  sort_order: 0
  required_plugins:
  options:
  doc:
    Tag resources as key or top level based on Package-type specific settings.

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Plugin: scancode_post_scan:consolidate  class: scancode.plugin_consolidate:Consolidator
  codebase_attributes: consolidated_components, consolidated_packages
  resource_attributes: consolidated_to
  sort_order: 8
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: post-scan, name: consolidate: --consolidate
      help: Group resources by Packages or license and copyright holder and return those groupings as a list of consolidated packages and a list of consolidated components. This requires the scan to have/be run with the copyright, license, and package options active
  doc:
    A ScanCode post-scan plugin to return consolidated components and consolidated
    packages for different types of codebase summarization.

    A consolidated component is a group of Resources that have the same origin.
    Currently, consolidated components are created by grouping Resources that have
    the same license expression and copyright holders and the files that contain
    this license expression and copyright holders combination make up 75% or more of
    the files in the directory where they are found.

    A consolidated package is a detected package in the scanned codebase that has
    been enhanced with data about other licenses and holders found within it.

    If a Resource is part of a consolidated component or consolidated package, then
    the identifier of the consolidated component or consolidated package it is part
    of is in the Resource's ``consolidated_to`` field.

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Plugin: scancode_post_scan:filter-clues  class: cluecode.plugin_filter_clues:RedundantCluesFilter
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes:
  sort_order: 1
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: post-scan, name: filter_clues: --filter-clues
      help: Filter redundant duplicated clues already contained in detected license and copyright texts and notices.
  doc:
    Filter redundant clues (copyrights, authors, emails, and urls) that are already
    contained in another more important scan result.

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Plugin: scancode_post_scan:is-license-text  class: licensedcode.plugin_license_text:IsLicenseText
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes: is_license_text
  sort_order: 80
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: post-scan, name: is_license_text: --is-license-text
      help: Set the "is_license_text" flag to true for files that contain mostly license texts and notices (e.g over 90% of the content). [EXPERIMENTAL]
  doc:
    Set the "is_license_text" flag to true for at the file level for text files
    that contain mostly (as 90% of their size) license texts or notices.
    Has no effect unless --license, --license-text and --info scan data
    are available.

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Plugin: scancode_post_scan:license-clarity-score  class: summarycode.score:LicenseClarityScore
  codebase_attributes: license_clarity_score
  resource_attributes:
  sort_order: 110
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: post-scan, name: license_clarity_score: --license-clarity-score
      help: Compute a summary license clarity score at the codebase level.
  doc:
    Compute a License clarity score at the codebase level.

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Plugin: scancode_post_scan:license-policy  class: licensedcode.plugin_license_policy:LicensePolicy
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes: license_policy
  sort_order: 9
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: post-scan, name: license_policy: --license-policy
      help: Load a License Policy file and apply it to the scan at the Resource level.
  doc:
    Add the "license_policy" attribute to a resouce if it contains a
    detected license key that is found in the license_policy.yml file

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Plugin: scancode_post_scan:mark-source  class: scancode.plugin_mark_source:MarkSource
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes: source_count
  sort_order: 8
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: post-scan, name: mark_source: --mark-source
      help: Set the "is_source" to true for directories that contain over 90% of source files as children and descendants. Count the number of source files in a directory as a new source_file_counts attribute
  doc:
    Set the "is_source" flag to true for directories that contain
    over 90% of source files as direct children.
    Has no effect unless the --info scan is requested.

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Plugin: scancode_post_scan:summary  class: summarycode.summarizer:ScanSummary
  codebase_attributes: summary
  resource_attributes:
  sort_order: 10
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: post-scan, name: summary: --summary
      help: Summarize license, copyright and other scans at the codebase level.
  doc:
    Summarize a scan at the codebase level.

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Plugin: scancode_post_scan:summary-by-facet  class: summarycode.summarizer:ScanByFacetSummary
  codebase_attributes: summary_by_facet
  resource_attributes:
  sort_order: 200
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: post-scan, name: summary_by_facet: --summary-by-facet
      help: Summarize license, copyright and other scans and group the results by facet.
  doc:
    Summarize a scan at the codebase level groupping by facets.

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Plugin: scancode_post_scan:summary-keeping-details  class: summarycode.summarizer:ScanSummaryWithDetails
  codebase_attributes: summary
  resource_attributes: summary
  sort_order: 100
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: post-scan, name: summary_with_details: --summary-with-details
      help: Summarize license, copyright and other scans at the codebase level, keeping intermediate details at the file and directory level.
  doc:
    Summarize a scan at the codebase level and keep file and directory details.

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Plugin: scancode_post_scan:summary-key-files  class: summarycode.summarizer:ScanKeyFilesSummary
  codebase_attributes: summary_of_key_files
  resource_attributes:
  sort_order: 150
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: post-scan, name: summary_key_files: --summary-key-files
      help: Summarize license, copyright and other scans for key, top-level files. Key files are top-level codebase files such as COPYING, README and package manifests as reported by the --classify option "is_legal", "is_readme", "is_manifest" and "is_top_level" flags.
  doc:
    Summarize a scan at the codebase level for only key files.

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Plugin: scancode_pre_scan:classify  class: summarycode.classify:FileClassifier
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes: is_legal, is_manifest, is_readme, is_top_level, is_key_file
  sort_order: 50
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: pre-scan, name: classify: --classify
      help: Classify files with flags telling if the file is a legal, or readme or test file, etc.
  doc:
    Classify a file such as a COPYING file or a package manifest with a flag.

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Plugin: scancode_pre_scan:facet  class: summarycode.facet:AddFacet
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes: facets
  sort_order: 20
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: pre-scan, name: facet: --facet
      help: Add the <facet> to files with a path matching <pattern>.
  doc:
    Assign one or more "facet" to each file (and NOT to directories). Facets are
    a way to qualify that some part of the scanned code may be core code vs.
    test vs. data, etc.

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Plugin: scancode_pre_scan:ignore  class: scancode.plugin_ignore:ProcessIgnore
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes:
  sort_order: 100
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: pre-scan, name: ignore: --ignore
      help: Ignore files matching <pattern>.
    help_group: pre-scan, name: include: --include
      help: Include files matching <pattern>.
  doc:
    Include or ignore files matching patterns.

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Plugin: scancode_scan:copyrights  class: cluecode.plugin_copyright:CopyrightScanner
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes: copyrights, holders, authors
  sort_order: 4
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: primary scans, name: copyright: -c, --copyright
      help: Scan <input> for copyrights.
  doc:
    Scan a Resource for copyrights.

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Plugin: scancode_scan:emails  class: cluecode.plugin_email:EmailScanner
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes: emails
  sort_order: 8
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: other scans, name: email: -e, --email
      help: Scan <input> for emails.
    help_group: scan options, name: max_email: --max-email
      help: Report only up to INT emails found in a file. Use 0 for no limit.
  doc:
    Scan a Resource for emails.

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Plugin: scancode_scan:generated  class: summarycode.generated:GeneratedCodeDetector
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes: is_generated
  sort_order: 50
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: other scans, name: generated: --generated
      help: Classify automatically generated code files with a flag.
  doc:
    Tag a file as generated.

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Plugin: scancode_scan:info  class: scancode.plugin_info:InfoScanner
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes: date, sha1, md5, mime_type, file_type, programming_language, is_binary, is_text, is_archive, is_media, is_source, is_script
  sort_order: 0
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: other scans, name: info: -i, --info
      help: Scan <input> for file information (size, checksums, etc).
  doc:
    Scan a file Resource for miscellaneous information such as mime/filetype and
    basic checksums.

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Plugin: scancode_scan:licenses  class: licensedcode.plugin_license:LicenseScanner
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes: licenses, license_expressions
  sort_order: 2
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: primary scans, name: license: -l, --license
      help: Scan <input> for licenses.
    help_group: scan options, name: license_score: --license-score
      help: Do not return license matches with a score lower than this score. A number between 0 and 100.
    help_group: scan options, name: license_text: --license-text
      help: Include the detected licenses matched text.
    help_group: scan options, name: license_text_diagnostics: --license-text-diagnostics
      help: In the matched license text, include diagnostic highlights surrounding with square brackets [] words that are not matched.
    help_group: scan options, name: license_url_template: --license-url-template
      help: Set the template URL used for the license reference URLs. Curly braces ({}) are replaced by the license key.
    help_group: scan options, name: license_diag: --license-diag
      help: (DEPRECATED: this is always included by default now). Include diagnostic information in license scan results.
    help_group: miscellaneous, name: reindex_licenses: --reindex-licenses
      help: Check the license index cache and reindex if needed and exit.
  doc:
    Scan a Resource for licenses.

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Plugin: scancode_scan:packages  class: packagedcode.plugin_package:PackageScanner
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes: packages
  sort_order: 6
  required_plugins: scan:licenses
  options:
    help_group: primary scans, name: package: -p, --package
      help: Scan <input> for package manifests and packages.
    help_group: documentation, name: list_packages: --list-packages
      help: Show the list of supported package types and exit.
  doc:
    Scan a Resource for Package manifests and report these as "packages" at the
    right file or directory level.

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Plugin: scancode_scan:urls  class: cluecode.plugin_url:UrlScanner
  codebase_attributes:
  resource_attributes: urls
  sort_order: 10
  required_plugins:
  options:
    help_group: other scans, name: url: -u, --url
      help: Scan <input> for urls.
    help_group: scan options, name: max_url: --max-url
      help: Report only up to INT urls found in a file. Use 0 for no limit.
  doc:
    Scan a Resource for URLs.

--list-packages Option

This shows all the types of packages that can be scanned using Scancode. These are located in packagedcode i.e. Code used to parse various package formats.