Autopsy Forensic Browser Developer's Guide and API Reference

Overview

Autopsy has been designed as a platform for open source tools besides just The Sleuth Kit. This document is for developers who want to add functionality into Autopsy. This could be in the form of enhancing the existing functionality or by making a plug-in module. Plug-in modules can be distributed from your own website (or contributed back).

If you are looking for documentation on using Autopsy, refer to http://sleuthkit.org/autopsy/docs/user-docs/.

If these pages don't answer your question, then send the question to The Sleuth Kit Developer's List (https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sleuthkit-developers).

If you want to write modules, then these pages are for you:

• Module Development Overview
• Setup
  • Java Development Setup
  • Python Development Setup
• The following are based on specific types of modules:
  • Developing Ingest Modules
  • Developing Report Modules
  • Developing Content Viewer Modules
  • Developing Result Viewer Modules
• Advanced Development Concepts
• Mobile Forensics

These pages are more detailed if you want to modify Autopsy code instead of writing add-on modules.

• General Workflow and Design
• Regression Testing
• Native Library Loading
• Debugging The Sleuth Kit