kryndex / c-vtapi

Official implementation of the VirusTotal API in C programming language

VirusTotal C API library This libary is designed to work with both the:

• The public API https://www.virustotal.com/en/documentation/public-api/
• The private API https://www.virustotal.com/en/documentation/private-api/

Runtime Dependencies

• curl or libcurl (curl-devel package on some distributions)
• janson version 2.2 (min) (2.5 or newer recommeded. janson-devel on some distros)

Compiling Dependencies

• automake, autoconf (might be autotools package on your platform)
• gcc
• libtool

Debian or Ubuntu Dependencies:

sudo apt-get install automake autoconf libtool libjansson-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

Redhat, Fedora, Centos or RPM based distros:

yum install libtool jansson-devel

To compile on Linux, BSD, or Mac OS X:

autoreconf -fi
./configure
make
sudo make install

If you wish to build the examples in the 'examples' directory:

autoreconf -fi
./configure --enable-examples
make
sudo make install

If you have doxygen installed on your system you may optionally generate developer doxygen docs:

make doxygen-doc

Usage on MS Windows is partially functioal now, but requires more patches to be fully supported.

Windows compilation:

* Installl mingw
  *  mingw32 gcc-g++
  *  mingw32-autoconf
  *  mingw32-automake
* compile libcurl  (See their docs on windows compile)

Windows compilation (MS Visual Studio)

• install MS Visual Studio 2013
• install CMake
• Compile jansson (see janson docs)
• Compile curl (see janson docs)

See Examples in examples/ For some example test programs using API.

url --apikey=YOUR_KEY --scan http://youtube.com url --apikey=YOUR_KEY --report http://youtube.com

scan --help ./scan --apikey YOUR_KEY --filescan /bin/ls ./scan --apikey YOUR_KEY --report HASH