Basic Host Rescan Example

This sample updates the report for a specific website (triggers a rescan) by invoking the URLVoid API service via DXL.

For more information see:
http://api.urlvoid.com/dashboard/#usage

Prerequisites

Running

To run this sample execute the sample/basic/basic_host_rescan.py script as follows:

python sample/basic/basic_host_rescan.py

The output should appear similar to the following:

Response for URLVoid host rescan:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><response>
    <details>
         <host>027.ru</host>
         <updated>1499901690</updated>
         <http_response_code>0</http_response_code>
         <domain_age>1134018000</domain_age>
         <google_page_rank>0</google_page_rank>
         <alexa_rank>0</alexa_rank>
         <connect_time>0</connect_time>
         <header_size>0</header_size>
         <download_size>0</download_size>
         <speed_download>0</speed_download>
         <external_url_redirect/>
         <ip>
            <addr>185.53.177.31</addr>
            <hostname/>
            <asn>61969</asn>
            <asname>Team Internet AG</asname>
            <country_code>DE</country_code>
            <country_name>Germany</country_name>
            <region_name/>
            <city_name/>
            <continent_code>EU</continent_code>
            <continent_name>Europe</continent_name>
            <latitude>51.2993</latitude>
            <longitude>9.491</longitude>
         </ip>
    </details>
    <detections>
        <engines>
             <engine>MyWOT</engine>
             <engine>SCUMWARE</engine>
             <engine>Avira</engine>
        </engines>
         <count>3</count>
    </detections>
    <action_result>OK</action_result>    <page_load>5.06</page_load>
</response>

The received results are displayed.

Details

The majority of the sample code is shown below:

# Create the client
with DxlClient(config) as client:

    # Connect to the fabric
    client.connect()

    logger.info("Connected to DXL fabric.")

    # Invoke 'host rescan' method
    request_topic = "/opendxl-urlvoid/service/urlvapi/host/rescan"

    req = Request(request_topic)
    MessageUtils.dict_to_json_payload(req, {"host": "027.ru"})

    res = client.sync_request(req, timeout=60)
    if res.message_type != Message.MESSAGE_TYPE_ERROR:
        payload = MessageUtils.decode_payload(res)
        xml = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(payload)
        print("Response for URLVoid host rescan:")
        print(xml.toprettyxml(
            indent='    ', newl='', encoding="UTF-8").decode("UTF-8"))
    else:
        print("Error invoking service with topic '{0}': {1} ({2})".format(
            request_topic, res.error_message, res.error_code))

After connecting to the DXL fabric, a request message is created with a topic that targets the "host rescan" method of the URLVoid API DXL service.

The next step is to set the payload of the request message. The contents of the payload include the host to rescan.

The final step is to perform a synchronous request via the DXL fabric. If the response message is not an error its contents are displayed.