## vt collection

Get information about collections

### Synopsis

Get information about one or more collections.

This command receives one or more collection IDs and returns information about
them. The information for each collection is returned in the same order as the
collections are passed to the command.

If the command receives a single hypen (-) the collection will be read from
the standard input, one per line.

```
vt collection [collection]... [flags]
```

### Examples

```
  vt collection malpedia_win_emotet
  vt collection malpedia_win_emotet alienvault_603eb1abdd4812819c64e197
  cat list_of_collections | vt collection -n [collection_name] -d [collection_description] -
```

### Options

```
  -x, --exclude strings    exclude fields matching the provided pattern
  -h, --help               help for collection
  -I, --identifiers-only   print identifiers only
  -i, --include strings    include fields matching the provided pattern (default [**])
  -t, --threads int        number of threads working in parallel (default 5)
```

### Options inherited from parent commands

```
  -k, --apikey string   API key
      --format string   Output format (yaml/json/csv) (default "yaml")
  -s, --silent          Silent or quiet mode. Do not show progress meter
  -v, --verbose         verbose output
```

### SEE ALSO

* [vt](vt.md)	 - A command-line tool for interacting with VirusTotal
* [vt collection associations](vt_collection_associations.md)	 - Collection's related collections (associations).
* [vt collection attack_techniques](vt_collection_attack_techniques.md)	 - Collection's ATT&CK techniques.
* [vt collection autogenerated_graphs](vt_collection_autogenerated_graphs.md)	 - Autogenerated graphs related to the collection.
* [vt collection campaigns](vt_collection_campaigns.md)	 - Collection's related campaigns.
* [vt collection collections](vt_collection_collections.md)	 - Collection's related collections.
* [vt collection comments](vt_collection_comments.md)	 - Comments for the collection.
* [vt collection create](vt_collection_create.md)	 - Create a collection.
* [vt collection delete](vt_collection_delete.md)	 - Delete a collection.
* [vt collection domains](vt_collection_domains.md)	 - Collection's domains.
* [vt collection files](vt_collection_files.md)	 - Collection's files.
* [vt collection ip_addresses](vt_collection_ip_addresses.md)	 - Collection's IP addresses.
* [vt collection malware_families](vt_collection_malware_families.md)	 - Collection's related malware families.
* [vt collection owner](vt_collection_owner.md)	 - Owner of the collection.
* [vt collection references](vt_collection_references.md)	 - Collection's references.
* [vt collection related_collections](vt_collection_related_collections.md)	 - Returns the Collections containing IOCs which are in this Collection.
* [vt collection related_references](vt_collection_related_references.md)	 - Returns the References of the IOCs in this Collection.
* [vt collection related_reports](vt_collection_related_reports.md)	 - Collection's related reports
* [vt collection relationships](vt_collection_relationships.md)	 - Get all relationships.
* [vt collection remove](vt_collection_remove.md)	 - Remove items from a collection.
* [vt collection rename](vt_collection_rename.md)	 - Rename collection.
* [vt collection reports](vt_collection_reports.md)	 - Collection's related reports.
* [vt collection software_toolkits](vt_collection_software_toolkits.md)	 - Collection's related software toolkits.
* [vt collection subscription_preferences](vt_collection_subscription_preferences.md)	 - Subscription preference for the given user.
* [vt collection threat_actors](vt_collection_threat_actors.md)	 - Collection's related threat actors.
* [vt collection update](vt_collection_update.md)	 - Add new items to a collection.
* [vt collection urls](vt_collection_urls.md)	 - Collection's URLs.
* [vt collection vulnerabilities](vt_collection_vulnerabilities.md)	 - Collection's related vulnerabilities.

