API Reference

Upload a file

post
https://www.virustotal.com/api/v3/files

Upload and analyse a file

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File size

If the file to be uploaded is bigger than 32MB, please use the /files/upload_url endpoint instead which admits files up to 650MB.

Body Params

File to scan

file
string

Optional, password to decompress and scan a file contained in a protected ZIP file.

Headers
string
required

Your API key

Responses

400

If password was provided and the file isn't a ZIP, it contains more than one file, the password is incorrect, or the file is corrupt.

Updated 6 months ago

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Response
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application/json

Updated 6 months ago