How to virus scan a RAR archive in Node.JS

Virus scanning is a crucial feature, but you probably don’t want to break the bank or waste an entire day coding it. We have a lovely compromise for you: one of our handy APIs.

First task, add this reference to your package.json file, so that our API client can be installed.

"dependencies": {
    "cloudmersive-virus-api-client": "^1.1.3"
  }

With that complete, all that we have left to do is call our scanFile function, shown below.

var CloudmersiveVirusApiClient = require('cloudmersive-virus-api-client');
var defaultClient = CloudmersiveVirusApiClient.ApiClient.instance;
// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
var Apikey = defaultClient.authentications['Apikey'];
Apikey.apiKey = 'YOUR API KEY';
// Uncomment the following line to set a prefix for the API key, e.g. "Token" (defaults to null)
//Apikey.apiKeyPrefix = 'Token';
var apiInstance = new CloudmersiveVirusApiClient.ScanApi();
var inputFile = "/path/to/file"; // File | Input file to perform the operation on.
var callback = function(error, data, response) {
if (error) {
console.error(error);
} else {
console.log('API called successfully. Returned data: ' + data);
}
};
apiInstance.scanFile(inputFile, callback);

Go ahead and test it out on your RAR file, and you will be alerted of any potential viruses or malware from a library of over 17 million definitions.