Overview

The API for this library is relatively small and shares the same concepts and principles seen in the underlying REST API. For this reason we highly recommend you to familiarize yourself with these concepts before continuing.

While using this library you may have the impression that it’s very similar to other general-purpose HTTP libraries like requests, as you will see very generic APIs like vt.Client.get(), vt.Client.post() and so on. In fact, you will find yourself relying on the REST API documentation in order to find the right endpoint where to send a request to, or learn about the attributes exported by some object. This has been a deliberate decision. We wanted vt-py to be as lightweight and generic as possible, so that changes in the REST API don’t always require a new version of this client library, but at the same time offering the right abstractions so that you don’t need to deal with details like setting HTTP headers, serializing and deserializing JSON, etc.

So, this is not a high-level library that completely abstract you out of the underlying REST API, quite the contrary, this library is more like a HTTP library that has been enriched with features specifically tailored to work with the VirusTotal API.