How to Check URLs Before Clicking with OpenClaw
Check URLs Before Clicking with OpenClaw and ToolRouter. Scan suspicious links against threat intelligence feeds before opening them or sharing them with colleagues.
Tool
OpenClaw lets you run `check_url` across a batch of links — scanning dozens of URLs from a report, a crawl, or an email archive in a single job. This is the right approach when the check is recurring, scheduled, or needs to process more URLs than you would handle interactively.
Connect ToolRouter to OpenClaw
1Install the CLI
npm install -g toolrouter-mcp2Call tools directly from OpenClaw
toolrouter-mcp call web-search search --query "AI tools"
toolrouter-mcp toolsSteps
Once connected (see setup above), use the Security Scanner tool:
- Prepare the list of URLs to scan — from a report, crawl output, or email archive.
- Run `security-scanner` with `check_url` for each URL and collect the verdicts in a normalized schema.
- Filter results to flagged URLs and sort by threat score so the highest-risk items surface first.
- Export the batch result as a CSV or structured report for the security team.
Example Prompt
Try this with OpenClaw using the Security Scanner tool
Use security-scanner to check these URLs in sequence: https://example-redirect.xyz/promo?ref=abc123, https://another-link.io/track, https://short.ly/xyz. Return each result with url, verdict, threat_score, and flagged_categories in a stable schema I can compare across runs.
Tips
- Lock the output schema before the first batch run so results stay comparable across repeated scans.
- Sort by threat score descending so the highest-risk URLs are reviewed first.
- Schedule recurring scans of known-external URLs in your systems to catch reputation changes over time.