virustotalpy 0.2.0

library for an easier interaction with the v3 api

Virustotalpy v0.2.0 let's you analyse IPs, URLs and files up to 650MB.

Installation

Method 1:

Requires Python 3.6 or newer.

pip install virustotalpy

Method 2:

Requires git

git clone https://github.com/maxmmueller/virustotalpy.git

Usage

In order to get a VirusTotal api-key, you need to sign up for an account

At first the Virustotal class has to be initialised

from virustotalpy import Virustotal

scanner = Virustotal('YOUR_API_KEY')

Files

• make api request

resp = scanner.api_request('post', path='PATH_TO_FILE')

• Obtain information about the file:

NOTE: To get this information, you must use the "post" method first.

resp = scanner.api_request('get', path='PATH_TO_FILE')
print(resp)

URLs

• make api request

resp = scanner.api_request('post', path='URL')

• Obtain information about the url:

NOTE: To get this information, you must use the "post" method first.

resp = scanner.api_request('get', path='URL')
print(resp)

• more examples

Learn more:

• GitHub
• API

License

Copyright 2021-2022 Maximilian Mueller.

Apache License 2.0.