urlscan.io
Submit a URL to a sandboxed browser and inspect the resulting web requests and artifacts.
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What this tool does.
urlscan.io scans a submitted URL in an automated browsing environment and records requests, domains, IPs and page-level artifacts.
Useful for web investigation, phishing triage and understanding how a page behaves when loaded.
Dev-docs · 2 documents.
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