Now that you have Venera installed following 1 - Installation, after before steps it must be ready to go. To run it, open a new command line and run the binary with the venera command, this should load a new interactive prompt, the tool's interface where the user should take their actions.
After venera starts up, it must present a banner containing version information and the repository in addition to its name.
You will notice that there are no scripts to be executed, that is, the tool does nothing. The first thing you must is to download the scripts from the official repository, or whatever else you want. Do this by using 6 - Venera Package Manager (VPM), a built-in package manager for scripts.
The main repository from where the scripts will be downloaded is http://r.venera.farinap5.com/package.yaml, you can see it and change for another by using 4 - Global Variables.
Type the sync command from VPN and synchronize the scripts.
[vnr]>> vpm sync
[vnr]>> vpm sync
[OK]- Requesting http://r.venera.farinap5.com/package.yaml
[!]- Intalling /web/trace.lua
[OK]- /web/trace.lua installed.
[!]- Intalling /web/ngx1.lua
[OK]- /web/ngx1.lua installed.
[!]- Intalling /web/gen_ssti_jinja.lua
[OK]- /web/gen_ssti_jinja.lua installed.
...
Type reload root to refresh the scrpts search engine.
There are already some scripts to be used. Several scripts were installed for testing, example scripts, and general use scripts.
Type the command use followed by any script, the suggestions may give some examples.
[vnr]>> use /root/.venera/scripts/test/http.lua
After loading the script, type info to show some data regarding it.
(/root/.venera/scripts/test/http.lua)>> info
## AUTHOR/S ##
1) Author1 <author1@mail.com>
## TAGS ##
1) example
2) http
## INFO ##
HTTP requests with lua-go
(/root/.venera/scripts/test/http.lua)>>
Type options to see the parameters.
(/root/.venera/scripts/test/http.lua)>> options
VARIABLE DEFAULT REQUIRED DESCRIPTION
-------- ------- -------- -----------
URL http://example.com yes URL
METHOD GET yes METHOD
Let's reset the URL.
(/root/.venera/scripts/test/http.lua)>> set URL http://example.com/
[OK] URL <- http://example.com/
(/root/.venera/scripts/test/http.lua)>> options
VARIABLE DEFAULT REQUIRED DESCRIPTION
-------- ------- -------- -----------
URL http://example.com/ yes URL
METHOD GET yes METHOD
(/root/.venera/scripts/test/http.lua)>>
Now you may execute it by typing run.
(/root/.venera/scripts/test/http.lua)>> run
[OK]- 200
[OK]- <!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Example Domain</title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<style type="text/css">
...
Awesome. Venera is working as expected!