urlscan.io

· #212 most-used

Scan any URL. Know the threat before anyone clicks.

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urlscan.io is a website threat-intelligence scanner that analyses any URL for malware, phishing, and malicious redirects — capturing screenshots, DOM snapshots, network activity, and a verdict score in seconds. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can submit URLs for scanning, retrieve verdict scores, pull IOC lists, and monitor domains on watchlists automatically. Your security team stops manually investigating suspicious links and starts receiving structured threat verdicts in the tools they already use.

Average time saved
10 hours
per person · per month
≈ 1 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Automating urlscan.io eliminates the manual cycle of copying URLs into the browser, waiting for results, interpreting the verdict, and formatting findings into reports — a loop that security analysts repeat dozens of times per day.

Schedule

What your urlscan.io agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

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Multi-app workflows

urlscan.io × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows
9Apps spanned
~55 hrsSaved / week
6Personas served
For customer success
Featured4 apps

Phishing link triage, under 2 minutes

When a support email arrives containing a suspicious URL, your agent extracts the link, submits it to urlscan.io as a private scan, and waits for the verdict — then posts a threat summary with screenshot, IOCs, and recommended action directly into the support ticket. Malicious links are escalated to the security team in Slack within 90 seconds; clean links close the alert automatically. Analysts stop clicking unknown URLs and start reading structured verdicts instead.

~23 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow
Trigger·When a support email arrives flagged as containing a suspicious link
Result
Get scan result and verdict scorePost threat summary to #security-ops with screenshot linkSchedule analyst review if verdict score exceeds 50
The win
Saved per run
45 min
Runs / week
~30×
Zero analyst clicks on unknown URLs
Driven byCustomer Support Agent
ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Sales
    18 min / week
    Prospect domain manual check

    Sales reps Google prospect domains before outreach to verify they're legitimate businesses and not flagged for fraud — taking 3–4 minutes per prospect with no consistent method.

    Sales Agent
    0 min
    Agent scans prospect domains automatically

    The agent submits every new prospect domain to urlscan.io and logs the verdict before outreach begins — bad domains quarantined, clean ones approved in under 60 seconds.

  • Marketing
    13 min / week
    Campaign link safety review

    Before each email campaign send, marketers manually click every link to confirm it resolves correctly and doesn't redirect through flagged domains — slow, inconsistent, and not documented.

    Marketing Agent
    0 min
    Agent pre-screens every campaign URL

    The agent submits all campaign links to urlscan.io before send, blocks any scoring above the risk threshold, and logs the sweep result to the audit trail — zero manual clicking.

  • Customer Support
    18 min / week
    Suspicious link triage

    When customers report suspicious links, support analysts manually browse to the URL or forward it to the security team — exposing systems to risk and adding 20–40 minutes to resolution time.

    Customer Support Agent
    0 min
    Agent scans and verdicts in under 2 minutes

    The agent extracts the URL from the ticket, submits it as a private urlscan.io scan, and posts verdict and IOCs back into the ticket — analysts never click the link.

  • Human Resources
    7 min / week
    Job-board link verification

    HR manually verifies links sent by candidates or posted in job listings to avoid phishing or fraudulent recruiter sites — done sporadically with no consistent tooling.

    Human Resources Agent
    0 min
    Agent scans candidate-submitted URLs

    When a candidate submits a portfolio or profile link, the agent scans it against urlscan.io and flags any with malicious verdicts before HR clicks — keeping the recruiting team safe.

  • Finance
    13 min / week
    Payment-portal phishing check

    Finance manually verifies that vendor payment portals and invoice links haven't been spoofed before initiating transfers — a high-stakes step that happens informally and inconsistently.

    Finance Agent
    0 min
    Agent validates vendor payment URLs

    Before any invoice payment is processed, the agent scans the payment portal link against urlscan.io and blocks the transaction if the verdict is malicious — zero manual verification steps.

  • Operations
    25 min / week
    Vendor site integrity audits

    Operations runs periodic manual checks of vendor-facing portals to verify they're still legitimate and haven't been compromised — typically quarterly and undocumented.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Agent monitors vendor domains continuously

    The agent scans the full vendor registry weekly, updates risk scores in the vendor management system, and escalates any domain flagged as malicious — audit coverage goes from quarterly to always-on.

  • Legal
    6 min / week
    Takedown evidence gathering

    Legal manually browses to impersonating domains to capture screenshots and document evidence before filing takedown requests — risky, time-consuming, and done in an ad-hoc browser session.

    Legal Agent
    0 min
    Agent captures and archives scan evidence

    The agent submits the reported domain to urlscan.io, retrieves the screenshot and IOCs, and packages them into the evidence file — legal never visits the malicious URL.

+ 100s of other urlscan.io automations
Average monthly
10 hrs / person / month
Average monthly
10 hrs / person / month
Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
10 people
Hourly rate
$20 / hr
Hours saved / week
25
Hours saved / year
1,250
Annual ROI
$25,000

Based on urlscan.io's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~2.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug urlscan.io into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

The fastest path to urlscan.io's scanning capabilities. Install the urlscan.io MCP server in one click and your agents can submit URLs, retrieve verdicts, and pull IOCs through a permissioned connection — no token rotation or raw API calls to manage.

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Open the Apps tab

Find urlscan.io in the Apps library and click Connect. MCP is selected by default.

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Provide your urlscan.io API key

When prompted, enter the API key from your urlscan.io account under Settings & API > API Keys. The MCP server uses this key to authenticate all agent requests on your behalf.

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Test the connection

Actionist runs a read-only call to verify the handshake. You're ready.

Actions

15 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

7 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

Skills

Skills that pair with urlscan.io

Reusable agent skills that work well alongside this app.

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FAQs

Questions about urlscan.io + Actionist

How do I connect urlscan.io to Actionist?
In the Apps tab, find urlscan.io and click Connect. Select MCP as the connection method, enter your urlscan.io API key (from Settings & API > API Keys in your urlscan.io account), and Actionist will run a test scan to verify the connection. The whole process takes under two minutes.
What API key permissions does the Actionist agent need?
Your urlscan.io API key needs standard read and write access — specifically the ability to submit scans and retrieve scan results, screenshots, and DOM data. Generate a dedicated key under Settings & API > API Keys so you can revoke it independently if needed. The free urlscan.io tier includes up to 5,000 public scans per day; private scans require a paid plan.
Can I combine urlscan.io with other apps in Actionist workflows?
Absolutely. urlscan.io works best as a middle step in security workflows: Gmail or Slack trigger the agent when a suspicious link is reported, urlscan.io provides the verdict and IOCs, and then Notion, HubSpot, or GitHub receive the findings. All six pre-built workflows in this page demonstrate real multi-app compositions.
What does urlscan.io actually analyse when it scans a URL?
When you submit a URL, urlscan.io loads it in a headless browser and captures the full-page screenshot, HTML DOM, all HTTP requests and responses, DNS queries, TLS certificate details, detected technologies, and external resources loaded. It then assigns a verdict score from 0 to 100 and classifies the page as benign, suspicious, malicious, or phishing. Your agent can retrieve any of these artefacts individually.
How do I avoid accidentally scanning sensitive internal URLs publicly?
Always use the 'private' visibility flag when submitting internal or sensitive URLs. Private scans are only accessible to your account and do not appear in urlscan.io's public dataset. In Actionist, configure the Submit URL scan action with visibility set to 'private' for any workflow handling internal systems, credentials pages, or customer PII links.
What rate limits should I plan around?
urlscan.io's free tier allows up to 5,000 public scans and 50 private scans per day. Paid plans increase private-scan quotas significantly. If your agents run bulk sweeps — for example, scanning an entire vendor registry weekly — plan your workflows to spread submissions across the day rather than firing all at once. Actionist's built-in rate-limiting config handles this automatically when you set a delay between scan submissions.
Can the agent watch for a specific domain appearing in new scans?
Yes. Use the 'Domain seen in new scan' trigger to have Actionist monitor for a domain appearing in any new public urlscan.io scan — even ones you didn't submit. This is the core of brand-abuse and attacker-infrastructure monitoring: when a lookalike domain surfaces in someone else's scan, your agent reacts immediately rather than waiting for a human to notice.
How do I disconnect urlscan.io from Actionist?
Go to the Apps tab, open urlscan.io, and click Disconnect. This immediately revokes the MCP server's access to your API key. For the API key method, also log in to urlscan.io and delete the key under Settings & API > API Keys — Actionist does not retain the key value after disconnection, so no further action is needed on the Actionist side.