Test script for scanning files on VT

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VirusTotal Scanning Python Script

What is it?

This is my test script on Python for scanning files on VirusTotal.

How to use

On eight (8) line of code replace <YOUR_API_KEY> on your VT api-key, save file, then start it, using command: python path_to_script/virustotal_scanning.py path_to_file/to_scan.exe

virustotal_scanning.py

# encoding: utf-8
import os
from sys import argv
import time
import json
import requests

file = argv[1]
print(file)

fileready = False
scanreq = requests.post("https://www.virustotal.com/vtapi/v2/file/scan", \
              params={"apikey": "147eac96e8a588d37164c584cdbc9f28d2138558ce7965ffc357dcf29215d963"}, \
              files={"file": (file[file.rfind("\\"):], open(file, 'rb'))})
json_scanreq = json.loads(scanreq.content)
reportreq = None
while not fileready:
    time.sleep(1)
    reportreq = requests.get("https://www.virustotal.com/vtapi/v2/file/report", \
                             params={"apikey": "147eac96e8a588d37164c584cdbc9f28d2138558ce7965ffc357dcf29215d963",\
                                     "resource": json_scanreq["md5"]})
    fileready = (json.loads(reportreq.content)["response_code"] == 1)
print(json.loads(reportreq.content))