Get the data as response from URL report

Here is the code

import vt
client = vt.Client(<API KEY>)
analysis = client.scan_url('https://21stcenturywire.com/2021/04/07/texas-governor-signs-order-banning-use-of-vaccine-passports/', wait_for_completion=True)
print(analysis)

Output

analysis u-17cca8a680d8c2b04a044cc689cdb2dadde2b43abcc2edfe290f3cb552d49bbe-1619945963
Unclosed client session
client_session: <aiohttp.client.ClientSession object at 0x0000017280919610>
Unclosed connector
connections: ['[(<aiohttp.client_proto.ResponseHandler object at 0x0000017280944220>, 6975.046)]']
connector: <aiohttp.connector.TCPConnector object at 0x0000017280919430>

But I want the result in terms of JSON to be added to my streamlit web app : https://developers.virustotal.com/reference#url-report

{
 'response_code': 1,
 'verbose_msg': 'Scan finished, scan information embedded in this object',
 'scan_id': '1db0ad7dbcec0676710ea0eaacd35d5e471d3e11944d53bcbd31f0cbd11bce31-1390467782',
 'permalink': 'https://www.virustotal.com/url/__urlsha256__/analysis/1390467782/',
 'url': 'http://www.virustotal.com/',
 'scan_date': '2014-01-23 09:03:02',
 'filescan_id': null,
 'positives': 0,
 'total': 51,
 'scans': {
    'CLEAN MX': {
      'detected': false, 
      'result': 'clean site'
    },
    'MalwarePatrol': {
      'detected': false, 
      'result': 'clean site'
    }
  }
}

[mgmacias95]

Hello @hritik5102,

Try doing

import vt
client = vt.Client(os.environ.get('VIRUS_TOTAL_API_KEY'))
analysis = await client.scan_url_async('https://21stcenturywire.com/2021/04/07/texas-governor-signs-order-banning-use-of-vaccine-passports/', wait_for_completion=True)
result =  analysis.to_dict() 

or

import vt
client = vt.Client(os.environ.get('VIRUS_TOTAL_API_KEY'))
analysis = client.scan_url('https://21stcenturywire.com/2021/04/07/texas-governor-signs-order-banning-use-of-vaccine-passports/', wait_for_completion=True)
result =  analysis.to_dict() 

The _async method use case would be launching multiple analyses in parallel and then fetching their results, something like this:

urls_to_scan = ['https://www.google.com/', 'https://www.virustotal.com/', 'https://github.com/']
futures = [client.scan_url_async(u) for u in urls_to_scan]
# do some other work here
for f in futures:
  result = await f
  print(result.to_dict())

If you’re only analysing one URL, using scan_url vs scan_url_async has (almost) no performance improvements I’d say.

Take in mind await should be used inside async functions, to learn more check out the python docs

I hope this helps.

Regards, Marta

[mgmacias95]

Hello @hritik5102,

Once you have your analysis object (returned from scan_url function) you can use its to_dict method:

analysis.to_dict()

I hope this helps.

Regards, Marta