As we mentioned in the Technical requirements section, arachni is our weapon of choice for SQLi scanners because it's open source, extensible, multi-threaded, and can be used from a CLI that plays nicely with other forms of automation.
After installing arachni as per the requirements (and symlinking your installation's arachni executable), you'll be able to access the arachni CLI in your $PATH. Let's look at Arachni's help message to explore some of the options available:
This is a truncated version of the output. Arachni has so many options there are too many to reprint here. But certain CLI options are useful for extending Arachni's functionality and creating more sophisticated workflows.
