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Socket Purl Batch Example

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Socket Purl Batch Example is an example object payload from Socket, with 2 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

requestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "request": {
    "method": "POST",
    "url": "https://api.socket.dev/v0/purl",
    "headers": {
      "Authorization": "Basic c29ja2V0X3lvdXJfYXBpX2tleTo="
    },
    "body": {
      "components": [
        { "purl": "pkg:npm/express@4.18.0" },
        { "purl": "pkg:npm/react@18.2.0" },
        { "purl": "pkg:pypi/requests@2.32.3" }
      ]
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "body": [
      {
        "type": "npm",
        "name": "express",
        "version": "4.18.0",
        "purl": "pkg:npm/express@4.18.0",
        "license": "MIT",
        "score": {
          "supplyChain": 0.91,
          "quality": 0.94,
          "maintenance": 0.83,
          "vulnerability": 0.85,
          "license": 1.0,
          "overall": 0.9
        },
        "alerts": [
          { "type": "knownVulnerability", "severity": "medium", "category": "vulnerability" }
        ],
        "capabilities": ["filesystemAccess", "networkAccess"]
      },
      {
        "type": "npm",
        "name": "react",
        "version": "18.2.0",
        "purl": "pkg:npm/react@18.2.0",
        "license": "MIT",
        "score": { "overall": 0.97 },
        "alerts": [],
        "capabilities": []
      }
    ]
  }
}

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