Installation

Command Line Tool

If you intend to use Magika only as a command line, you can install it in a number of ways:

pipx

pipx install magika

curl

curl -LsSf https://securityresearch.google/magika/install.sh | sh

wget

wget -qO- https://securityresearch.google/magika/install.sh | sh

powershell

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://securityresearch.google/magika/install.ps1 | iex"

Python package

Magika python package is available as magika on PyPI:

pip install magika

If you want to test out the latest release candidate from pypi, you can install it with

pip install --pre magika

JavaScript Package

JavaScript / TypeScript bindings can be installed with npm:

npm install magika

Docker

If you want to test Magika’s latest version (from git) within a Docker container, you can run:

git clone https://github.com/google/magika
cd magika/
docker build -t magika .
docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/magika magika -r /magika/tests_data/basic