How to virus scan a DMG archive in Python

Archive files can be a terrible pitfall for the unprepared system. You need a virus scanning solution in place to protect your project, which is what we will be looking into today. This would normally be quite the undertaking in terms of time and frustration. Today, that will not be the case. We will use a virus scanning API to save us the trouble.

Let’s pip install our virus scanning client first:

pip install cloudmersive-virus-api-client

Now we simply call scan_file. This can be done using an API instance, which I have demonstrated for you in this block of code right here:

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_virus_api_client
from cloudmersive_virus_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint
# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_virus_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
# Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
# configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer'
# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_virus_api_client.ScanApi(cloudmersive_virus_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
input_file = '/path/to/file' # file | Input file to perform the operation on.
try:
# Scan a file for viruses
api_response = api_instance.scan_file(input_file)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling ScanApi->scan_file: %s\n" % e)

Done!