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.

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.

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curl --request POST \
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     --url https://www.virustotal.com/api/v3/files \
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     --header 'accept: application/json' \
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     --header 'content-type: multipart/form-data'

Click Try It! to start a request and see the response here! Or choose an example:

application/json

200The analysis ID. Use /analyses/<analysis_ID> API call to check the analysis status.