# Technical Documentation: SpecterOps/BloodHound-Legacy

> ℹ️ **Provenance:** Multi-Tier Ingestion · [CodeWiki Reference](https://codewiki.google/github.com/SpecterOps/BloodHound-Legacy)

### Overview (README.md)

# BloodHound Legacy Edition (v4) Has Been Deprecated

This repository is for BloodHound Legacy (version 4), which was last updated in 2023 and is no longer maintained. It will be archived in the near future.

## Please Use the New BloodHound Community Edition

BloodHound Legacy has been replaced by the free BloodHound Community Edition:  
* [BloodHound Community Edition GitHub repository](https://github.com/SpecterOps/BloodHound)  
* [Installation instructions](https://bloodhound.specterops.io/get-started/quickstart/community-edition-quickstart)  
* [Full documentation](https://bloodhound.specterops.io)  

BloodHound was created by [@_wald0](https://www.twitter.com/_wald0), [@CptJesus](https://twitter.com/CptJesus), and [@harmj0y](https://twitter.com/harmj0y).

BloodHound is maintained by the [BloodHound Enterprise](https://bloodhoundenterprise.io/) team.

## Access to Deprecated Resources

You can still access the deprecated BloodHound Legacy documentation [here](https://bloodhound.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html).

# About BloodHound Enterprise

[BloodHound Enterprise](https://specterops.io/bloodhound-overview/) is an Attack Path Management solution that continuously maps and quantifies Active Directory attack paths. It helps eliminate millions—even billions—of attack paths within your existing architecture, removing the attacker’s easiest, most reliable, and most attractive techniques.

# License

BloodHound uses graph theory to reveal hidden relationships and
attack paths in an Active Directory environment.
Copyright (C) 2016–2025 SpecterOps Inc.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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### Index (`docs/index.rst`)

BloodHound: Six Degrees of Domain Admin
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.. admonition:: Deprecated Documentation
   :class: deprecated

   **This documentation has been deprecated.**

   Please use the `current BloodHound CE Documentation <https://bloodhound.specterops.io/>`_.

.. meta::
   :canonical: https://bloodhound.specterops.io/




.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :hidden:
   :caption: Installation

   installation/windows
   installation/osx
   installation/linux

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :hidden:
   :caption: Data Collection

   data-collection/sharphound
   data-collection/sharphound-all-flags
   data-collection/azurehound
   data-collection/azurehound-all-flags
   data-collection/bloodhound-py

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :hidden:
   :caption: Data Analysis

   data-analysis/bloodhound-gui
   data-analysis/nodes
   data-analysis/edges

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :hidden:
   :caption: Further Reading/Viewing

   further-reading/further-reading.rst
   further-reading/json.rst

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :hidden:
   :caption: Cypher Query Language

   cypher-query-language/intro-to-cypher
   cypher-query-language/cypher-query-gallery

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :hidden:
   :caption: Blue Team Use Cases

   blue-team-use-cases/auditing-permissions

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### Requirements (`docs/requirements.txt`)

# Defining the exact version will make sure things don't break
sphinx==5.3.0
sphinx_rtd_theme==1.1.1
sphinx-notfound-page==1.0.2

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###  Build Html  Sources Index.Rst (`docs/_build/html/_sources/index.rst.txt`)

.. BloodHound documentation master file, created by
   sphinx-quickstart on Wed Apr  8 19:24:42 2020.
   You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least
   contain the root `toctree` directive.

Welcome to BloodHound's documentation!
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :caption: Contents:



Indices and tables
==================

* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`

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