Security

Analyze a URL with Cortex

Submit a URL to a Cortex analyzer and read the resulting job details.

Setup

Use an HTTPS Cortex instance, an enabled analyzer that accepts URLs, and an API key with permission to run analyzers and read jobs. In Open Flow, create a secret Variable for the key and bind Auth Token on both HTTP nodes. Run with the instance URL, analyzer ID and URL to analyze. In n8n, connect the Cortex credential to both nodes and edit Set analysis details; use the same instance in the credential.

Cortex and the analyzer may send the URL to external services. Only submit URLs you are authorized to share. The request uses TLP 2 (Amber), matching the source. Configure an analyzer compatible with that TLP and the URL datatype.

Behavior

Each run submits one analyzer job and immediately reads that job once. The returned status can still be waiting or in progress; this workflow does not wait for completion or retrieve a report. Cortex may return a cached job. A failed request stops the workflow; a lost response may mean the job was created, so inspect Cortex before retrying. There is no automatic retry or rollback.

Inspiration & credits

Changes to the source

Replace the example URL and instance-specific analyzer with inputs. Use Cortex’s documented job ID field; the source referenced the undocumented _id field. Validate it before reading the job.
Both formats check that the returned job matches the submitted ID. Open Flow uses the Cortex HTTP API.

Adapted from Analyze a URL and get the job details using the Cortex node in Zie619/n8n-workflows. The matching n8n community listing credits Harshil Agrawal. The original template does not state a separate license.

The collection’s MIT notice is pinned at a later revision. This is the collection notice at that revision; it does not establish a separate original template author’s license. Our changes are listed above; see repository licensing.

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