virustotal: R Client for the VirusTotal Public API 2.0

Use VirusTotal, a Google service that analyzes files and URLs for viruses, worms, trojans etc., provides category of the content hosted by a domain from a variety of prominent services, provides passive DNS information, among other things.

As of June, 2016, Public API 2.0 had the following rate limits:

Unit of time	Rate Limit
Minute	4 requests/minute
Day	5760 requests/day
Month	178560 requests/month

See https://www.virustotal.com for more information.

Installation

To get the current released version from CRAN:

install.packages("virustotal")

To get the current development version from GitHub:

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("themains/virustotal", build_vignettes = TRUE)

Usage

To learn about how to use the package, read the vignette. Or launch the vignette within R:

# Using virustotal
vignette("using_virustotal", package = "virustotal")

License

Scripts are released under the MIT License.