Analyze Websites and Resources They Request

The <urlscan.io> service provides an ‘API’ enabling analysis of websites and the resources they request. Much like the ‘Inspector’ of your browser, <urlscan.io> will let you take a look at the individual resources that are requested when a site is loaded. Tools are provided to search public <urlscans.io> scan submissions/results and submit URLs for scanning.

The following functions are implemented:

• urlscan_search: Perform a urlscan.io query
• urlscan_result: Retrieve detailed results for a given scan ID
• urlscan_submit: Submit a URL for scanning

devtools::install_git("https://git.sr.ht/~hrbrmstr/urlscan")
# or
devtools::install_gitlab("hrbrmstr/urlscan")
# or
devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/urlscan")

library(urlscan)
library(tidyverse) # for demos

# current verison
packageVersion("urlscan")

## [1] '0.2.0'

x <- urlscan_search("domain:r-project.org")

as_tibble(x$results$task) %>% 
  bind_cols(as_tibble(x$results$page)) %>% 
  mutate(
    time = anytime::anytime(time),
    id = x$results$`_id`
  ) %>%
  arrange(desc(time)) %>% 
  select(url, country, server, ip, id) -> xdf

ures <- urlscan_result(xdf$id[2], include_dom = TRUE, include_shot = TRUE)

ures

##             URL: https://cran.r-project.org/
##         Scan ID: cdc2b957-548c-447a-a1b2-bebd6a734aec
##       Malicious: FALSE
##      Ad Blocked: FALSE
##     Total Links: 0
## Secure Requests: 9
##    Secure Req %: 100%

magick::image_write(ures$screenshot, "img/shot.png")

Please note that the ‘urlscan’ project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.