OTXv2

What it is and what it does

OTXv2 wraps the AlienVault Open Threat Exchange API, allowing you to fetch threat intelligence pulses, query indicators (IPs, domains, files, URLs), and retrieve threat details programmatically. It's built on three stable dependencies: requests for HTTP calls, python-dateutil and pytz for timestamp handling. The package is designed for security teams and researchers who want to integrate live threat data into their infrastructure—pulling indicators of compromise into firewalls, IDS systems, or custom security tools.

The library supports both read and write operations: you can subscribe to pulses and download their indicators, or create and manage your own pulses in OTX. It's used in production by security analysts and threat intelligence platforms, though the package itself has been dormant since early 2021, meaning no recent updates or bug fixes have been released despite the underlying API continuing to operate.

Use it for:

• Fetch indicators of compromise from subscribed OTX pulses and feed them into your firewall or IDS rules.
• Query threat details for a domain, IP, file hash, or URL to check if it's known malicious.
• Automate creation and management of threat intelligence pulses within OTX from your security workflow.
• Build a command-line tool or dashboard to monitor and display threat indicators your organization is tracking.
• Integrate OTX data into a SIEM or threat hunting platform for real-time indicator enrichment.

Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying

OTXv2 is a Python client for AlienVault's Open Threat Exchange API, enabling you to query threat intelligence data and manage security indicators programmatically.

Yes, with conditions. OTXv2 is stable and has no known vulnerabilities, with low install friction. However, it has been dormant since 2021-04-02—no maintenance for over 1960 days. Install it if you need to integrate with OTX and can accept that bugs or API changes won't be addressed by the maintainers. Verify license terms before use in proprietary contexts, and test compatibility with your Python version since support is unspecified.

Install

otxv2 on PyPI

pip install otxv2

uv add otxv2

poetry add otxv2

Installing OTXv2

Before you install

Installation is straightforward with low friction—three lightweight runtime dependencies (requests, python-dateutil, pytz). However, the package is dormant: last release was 2021-04-02, over 1960 days ago, with no recent maintenance despite an active repository.

License in practice

License treatment is unclear—no SPDX identifier or raw license text is available in the package metadata. Verify the actual license before use in proprietary or compliance-sensitive contexts.

Quickstart

pip install OTXv2

from OTXv2 import OTXv2
otx = OTXv2("YOUR_API_KEY")
indicators = otx.get_pulse_indicators("pulse_id")
for indicator in indicators:
    print(indicator["indicator"])

Requires a valid AlienVault OTX API key (obtain from https://otx.alienvault.com).

Verify before relying

• Python version compatibility—requires_python is unspecified; verify support for your target Python version.
• Whether the dormant status (last release 2021-04-02) affects API compatibility with current OTX endpoints.
• Actual license terms—license_treatment is unclear; check the repository for LICENSE file.
• Current monthly download volume and whether dormancy has affected adoption trends.

Package facts

Evidence: OTXv2-1.5.12-py3-none-any.whl

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