Changelog • virustotal

Major Changes

BREAKING: Migrated all core functions to VirusTotal API v3
BREAKING: Function return types changed from data.frame to list (following v3 API structure)
Updated all functions: file_report(), scan_file(), rescan_file(), url_report(), scan_url(), domain_report(), ip_report()
Removed deprecated virustotal2_* function calls from user-facing functions

New Features

Enhanced input validation for all functions
Automatic URL encoding for v3 API compatibility
Improved error messages with actionable guidance
Support for IPv6 addresses in ip_report()
Domain name normalization (removes protocols, www, paths)

Testing & Quality

Comprehensive test suite with 47+ tests
Added input validation tests for all core functions
Proper error handling tests
GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline replacing AppVeyor
Multi-platform testing (Ubuntu, Windows, macOS)
Automated test coverage reporting

Documentation

Updated all function documentation for v3 API
Comprehensive vignette rewrite with modern examples
Updated references to point to current VirusTotal documentation
Added usage examples for all major functions

Dependencies

Added base64enc for URL encoding support
Updated imports and suggests for modern R ecosystem

support for domain and ip v3
deprecate v2 domain and ip functions

extensive linting, passes expect_no_lint
url_report now returns service name

Removed link to bitdefender because CRAN was having issues
Better documentation with examples including comment for set_key, better formatting
Better error handling and more consistent returned data structures for url_report, file_report, rescan_file
url_report now accepts scan_id as a param
Warning messages end with new line
Added more tests, specifically checking returns to what happens when params/hash are incorrect
Enforces rate limiting — 4 queries per minute.
Graceful error handling if error limit exceeded.
changed virustotal to VirusTotal as CRAN doesn’t muck around.

Initial release