urlscan.io MCP connector

Urlscan.io is a URL scanning and analysis service for investigating and analyzing websites for security threats. The urlscan.io MCP connector allows AI agents to perform website scans, retrieve scan results, and search historical scans for threat intelligence. It enables security teams to automate website security analysis and track scanning history across their organization.

Authentication type

• API Key - Requires a static API key to be configured before the agent can connect to the service.

Uses

Use the urlscan.io MCP connector to perform the following actions:

• Identify malicious websites before employees access them in workflows
• Scan suspicious URLs submitted by customers to detect security threats
• Verify third-party vendor websites for phishing, malware, and fraud indicators
• Block risky domains from being shared across business applications automatically
• Investigate URL reputation history to assess security incidents and threats
• Automate security audits by scanning multiple URLs in bulk operations
• Detect compromised or defaced websites that may impact business partnerships

Example prompts

Use the following example prompts to invoke urlscan.io MCP connector tools from your AI assistant or Boomi Connect workflow:

• Scan this customer support link in urlscan.io and show me if it's safe.
• Check the security status of all URLs in that vendor contract using urlscan.io.
• Search urlscan.io for any previous scans of this domain from the past month.
• Run a website scan in urlscan.io on all the links our marketing team submitted.
• Show me the urlscan.io scan results for that suspicious email attachment link.
• Find all historical scans in urlscan.io for websites flagged as high risk.
• Perform a security scan in urlscan.io before we approve this partner's website.
• Tell me what threats urlscan.io found when we scanned this URL last week.
• Search urlscan.io to see if we've scanned this domain before.

urlscan.io MCP connector tools

The urlscan.io MCP connector provides the following tools. Each tool maps to a specific action you can invoke from your AI agent or automation.

Tool	Description
performScan	Initiates a website scan to analyze security, performance, and other metrics.
getScanResult	Retrieves detailed results and findings from a completed website scan.
searchScans	Searches and retrieves previously conducted website scans from history.