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virustotal3

library1.0.8pypypi✓ verified 81d ago

A Python 3 implementation of the VirusTotal v3 API. Version 1.0.8 provides an object-oriented interface to the VirusTotal API, supporting files, URLs, domains, IPs, comments, and analyses. The library is in active development with a focus on ease of use.

http-networking auth-security

pip install virustotal3

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virustotal3

http-networkingpythonv1.0.8

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Install & Compatibility

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Code

Verified usage

Verified import paths — ran on the pinned version, not inferred.

Virustotal

✓ import virustotal3

✗ from virustotal3 import Virustotal

Initialize the client and fetch file info by hash.

import os from virustotal3 import Virustotal api_key = os.environ.get('VT_API_KEY', 'your_api_key') vt = Virustotal(api_key) try: info = vt.get_file_info('275a021bbfb6489e54d471899f7db9d1663fc695ec2fe2a2c4538aabf651fd0f') print(info) except Exception as e: print(f'Error: {e}')

Debug

Known issues

gotchaAPI key must be provided as a string; the library does not load from environment variables automatically.

fix

Export VT_API_KEY as an environment variable and pass it explicitly.

affects: >=1.0.0

gotchaThe library uses synchronous HTTP requests (requests library). It is not async-compatible; use threading or a separate executor for concurrent calls.

fix

Use Python's concurrent.futures or asyncio with loop.run_in_executor.

affects: >=1.0.0

gotchaFile upload for large files may exceed default request timeout. The library does not expose timeout parameters directly.

fix

Consider chunked upload or increase timeout by modifying the underlying session (monkey-patch requests timeout).

affects: >=1.0.0

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Version history

1.0.8latest on PyPI · released Aug 17, 2020

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Resources

githubhttps://github.com/tr4cefl0w/virustotal3.git ↗

packagehttps://pypi.org/project/virustotal3/ ↗

homepagehttps://virustotal.com ↗