Add API route to post application request

[Niveshkrishna]

Create an API route to allow requesting analysis of new applications. Possibly a POST request which accepts package name in the body.

[Niveshkrishna]

@pnu-s WDYT? I can work on this if OK with you

[pnu-s]

Thanks @Niveshkrishna for opening this issue.

As far as I can recall (although I don't find any previous issue related to this), the main reason why we do not allow this is to avoid having too many demands, in terms of database size and load.

cc @codeurimpulsif if you can confirm

[codeurimpulsif]

Thanks for this issue @Niveshkrishna

And yes as @pnu-s said we don't have this endpoint to avoid too many requests on our API.

But I think it can be a good idea to implement it with an enable/disable toggle in settings (and disabled by default) for people who self-host their own exodus instance. The Exodus Privacy's instance will just not enable it.

[yoshimo]

When the request includes app version , architecture and store, can't you abort early and save resources that would otherwise be spent on downloading the app , unpacking and scanning it or would resources still be a problem?
Applications that are already being scanned at the moment, requests that violate a certain rate limit or where the download failed within the last 4h and versions that were already scanned recently could be cut short right after the attempt to scan them.

The exodus app itself can put more limits on top like not scanning an already scanned app version again when the result is fresh enough to not have changed.