# libghidra

> libghidra is a typed API for Ghidra program databases, callable from C++, Python, or Rust. It offers a remote backend that uses a live Ghidra host and a local backend with a compiled-in Sleigh engine for an offline subset of queries.

- Type: Tool
- Targets: Binary
- Category: Binary analysis libraries
- Relationship: Foundation tool
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/0xeb/libghidra>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/0xeb/libghidra/blob/d4c399b0ab85e509cf2b17de2872b193defb5b3e/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/libghidra/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/libghidra/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/libghidra/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- The remote backend needs a Ghidra distribution at version 12.0.4 or newer and JDK 21.
- The local backend needs no Ghidra JVM. Its README lists an offline subset: decompiler, functions, symbols, types, memory, listing, and cross-references.
- The README documents an install-prompt.md runbook and a manual Get Running path.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/0xeb/libghidra/blob/d4c399b0ab85e509cf2b17de2872b193defb5b3e/README.md>

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