Automation Station, Scripting and F-Response

Mar 10, 2026

We get a lot of great emails any given week. While a lot of them are simple, mundane requests for quotes or links to the manual, some go a bit deeper.

Some of you want to automate things.

These are some of the most interesting requests. It's really inspiring to see F-Response users looking for ways to integrate our software deeper into their processes and procedures. It really makes me stop and think about how many lives we've impacted and how many remote cyber forensics collections that were made possible thanks to F-Response over the preceding seventeen years.

Too many for me to wrap my head around is my guess.

So, let's take a second to highlight where the scripting options are, the basics of how they work, and where you can go for more details.

First, each F-Response product has some scripting capabilities, as they all run on a very similar architecture. There are three parts to the standard F-Response experience: the examiner tooling, the subject tooling, and the RPC middleware.

F-Response scripting is all about communicating with that RPC middleware on your local examiner machine through the loopback address (127.0.0.1) and properly crafted HTTP POSTS. This means that anything you want to use to execute your scripts and automations will work, provided it can issue crafted HTTP posts and receive the results in JSON (Javascript Object Notation) format.

This means F-Response doesn't dictate a specific scripting language or process. Just like the product itself, use the right tool for the right job. Couple F-Response with your favorite analysis tool or imager and let our software fade into the background.

We don't mind.

Next, what sort of stuff can you automate? All kinds of things. Basically, everything you see us do in videos, all the steps we perform in the examiner tooling, is just scripting commands under the hood.

This means you've got plenty of flexibility and plenty of options when it comes to what you can do to get F-Response automation working in your environment.

Lastly, we've got documentation, lots of it. You'll find links on the Mission Guides and Documentation page on our website to pdfs that cover scripting classic versions of F-Response (TACTICAL through Enterprise and Universal) as well as Collect-specific details in the F-Response Collect Manual.

So, when it comes to F-Response automation:

It's easy.

It's documented.

It's powerful.

You'll find the details on our website under Mission Guides and Documentation. Good luck with your automation, and don't worry, we'll tell your boss it's way harder than it looks.

Happy Automating,

Matt