# importing bro rules

**URL:** <https://community.zeek.org/t/importing-bro-rules/2691>\
**Category:** Zeek\
**Created:** [June 3, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/importing-bro-rules/2691 "2013-06-03T19:02:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Oguz\_Yarimtepe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d07c76/32.png) [@Oguz\_Yarimtepe](https://community.zeek.org/u/Oguz_Yarimtepe)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/importing-bro-rules/2691/1 "2013-06-03T19:02:37Z")

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Hi,

Is there any way to use bro rules at an external program. I want to detect raw traffic anomalies/attacks and instead of installing Bro i wonder whether i can just use the rules and parse them to gather some information. Maybe there exists an already written solution?

Regards.

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**Author:** ![Seth\_Hall3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Seth\_Hall3](https://community.zeek.org/u/Seth_Hall3)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 2:11am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/importing-bro-rules/2691/2 "2013-06-04T02:11:15Z")

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I believe you are misunderstanding Bro. Please give it a try instead of trying to avoid it. 🙂

&nbsp;&nbsp;.Seth

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/importing-bro-rules/2691/3 "2022-05-06T15:41:00Z")

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