How to virus scan an HTML file in Python

Virus scanning has never been easier, as you will see in today’s API demonstration. Dangerous files will soon be a thing of the past!

To install our client files, just add it with pip install, like so.

pip install cloudmersive-virus-api-client

Now we shall use the scan_file function to check out our file, like this:

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 it’s seriously just that easy! If you would like more options for your virus scan, there is an advanced version of this function available as well.