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In this call, we will start a search for the first 50 samples that WildFire™ has determined are malware.
In your cURL request, specify a POST request using JSON as your content type:
curl -X POST https://autofocus.paloaltonetworks.com/api/v1.0/samples/search/ \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{   "apiKey": "apikey",   "query": {     "operator": "all",     "children": [       {         "field": "sample.malware",         "operator": "is",         "value": 1       }     ]   },   "size": 50,   "from": 0,   "sort": {     "create_date": {       "order": "desc"     }   },   "scope": "public" }’
In response to your initial request, the API returns the following JSON, which contains a search ID (also known as an af_cookie):
{ "in_progress":true, "af_cookie":"870218db-27cd-4614-ac36-1d87f3f0016e+0", "bucket_info":{ "minute_points":200, "daily_points":25000, "minute_points_remaining":190, "daily_points_remaining":24114, "minute_bucket_start":"2015-09-04 18:51:39", "daily_bucket_start":"2015-09-04 13:58:42" } }