How to virus scan a ZIP archive in Node.JS

Setting up virus scanning from scratch is obviously a huge amount of work. Don’t worry though, we have a handy little API for that.

To kick things off, we are going to use NPM install to implement our API client with the following command:

npm install cloudmersive-virus-api-client --save

With our API accessible, we just need to invoke scanFile and input a zip file:

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);

Done! Our scan result will be returned to us, including information about the potential threat.