How to virus scan a Flash FLV or SWF in Python

Security is, of course, one of the most important aspects of any endeavor. Let’s look at how to beef up our virus scanning without spending all day doing it. With some assistance from a handy Cloudmersive API, our setup will be complete in minutes, not hours.

Installing the client is the first order of business today.

pip install cloudmersive-virus-api-client

And now it’s just a matter of instancing the API, from which we will call scan_file, as you see demonstrated right here in this example:

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! This API has over 17 million threat definitions, which are constantly updated via cloud. In addition, you can use scan_file_advanced for even more options, such as excluding specific file types and more.

Virus problem solved!