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Request rescan of a URL

Source: R/rescan_url.R
rescan_url.Rd

Request a new analysis of a URL already present in VirusTotal's database. Returns an analysis ID that can be used to retrieve the report using url_report.

Usage

rescan_url(url_id = NULL, ...)

Arguments

url_id

URL or URL ID (base64 encoded URL without padding). String. 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

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{

# 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")
} # }