virustotalpy 0.2.3

library for an easier interaction with the v3 api

virustotalpy

Virustotalpy is python library for an easier interaction with the public VirusTotal v3 api. Virustotalpy v0.2.0 let's you analyse and scan 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 have to 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 have to use the "post" method first.

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

• more examples

Learn more

• PyPI
• API

License

Copyright © 2021-2022 Maximilian Müller.

Apache License 2.0.