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virustotal: R Client for the VirusTotal Public API 2.0

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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.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.