rescan_url: Request rescan of a URL

In virustotal: R Client for the 'VirusTotal' API

Request rescan of a URL

Description

Request a new analysis of a URL already present in VirusTotal's database. Returns an analysis ID for use with url_report.

Usage

rescan_url(url_id = NULL, ...)

Arguments

url_id	URL or URL ID (base64 encoded URL without padding). Required.
...	Additional arguments passed to virustotal_POST.

Value

list containing analysis details and ID

References

https://docs.virustotal.com/reference

See Also

set_key for setting the API key, url_report for getting reports

Examples

## Not run: 

# Before calling the function, set the API key using set_key('api_key_here')

# Request rescan using URL
rescan_url("http://www.google.com")

# Request rescan using URL ID
rescan_url("687474703a2f2f7777772e676f6f676c652e636f6d2f")

## End(Not run)

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