curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.scanoss.com/v3/wfp/scan/direct \
  --header 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
  --form file=@example-file

import requests

url = "https://api.scanoss.com/v3/wfp/scan/direct"

files = { "file": ("example-file", open("example-file", "rb")) }

response = requests.post(url, files=files)

print(response.text)

const form = new FormData();
form.append('file', '<string>');

const options = {method: 'POST'};

options.body = form;

fetch('https://api.scanoss.com/v3/wfp/scan/direct', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.scanoss.com/v3/wfp/scan/direct",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Content-Type: multipart/form-data"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.scanoss.com/v3/wfp/scan/direct"

	payload := strings.NewReader("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.scanoss.com/v3/wfp/scan/direct")
  .body("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.scanoss.com/v3/wfp/scan/direct")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request.body = "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"example-file\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n<string>\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "src/scanner.c": [
    {
      "id": "file",
      "matched": "100%",
      "purl": [
        "pkg:github/scanoss/engine"
      ],
      "component": "engine",
      "version": "v5.4.25",
      "url_hash": "6739cca9db5ebfdadd89002f39be655d"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "status": "error",
  "error": {
    "code": "INVALID_QUERY",
    "message": "purl query parameter is required"
  },
  "timestamp": "2026-05-19T11:39:56Z"
}

{
  "status": "error",
  "error": {
    "code": "PAYLOAD_TOO_LARGE",
    "message": "upload exceeds max size"
  },
  "timestamp": "2026-05-19T11:39:56Z"
}

{
  "status": "error",
  "error": {
    "code": "INTERNAL_ERROR",
    "message": "..."
  },
  "timestamp": "2026-05-19T11:39:56Z"
}

{
  "status": "error",
  "error": {
    "code": "ENGINE_UNAVAILABLE",
    "message": "scan engine not available"
  },
  "timestamp": "2026-05-19T11:39:56Z"
}

{
  "status": "error",
  "error": {
    "code": "TIMEOUT",
    "message": "request timed out"
  },
  "timestamp": "2026-05-19T11:39:56Z"
}