How to virus scan a TAR file in Python

The dangers of un-vetted files looms large over all unprotected projects. If you do not have a virus scanning solution in place, then you came to the right spot. I’m going to show you how to set this up in Python, and do so with very little effort. Let’s dive straight in.

We are going to kick off with our client installation, using pip install, like so:

pip install cloudmersive-virus-api-client

Our next step is a simple API call setup, which we can do with an API instance created with an API key. Here is what that can look like:

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)

And with that done we can enter our file path and we are golden! That’s right, there’s really nothing else to it; your virus scanning solution is ready to go.