🛡 File Upload & Virus Scan API

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🚀 Need a ready-to-deploy version?

Includes Docker, setup guide, sample responses, and full API structure.

👉 Buy it on Gumroad

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A Flask-based API that handles secure file uploads and performs file type validation. Designed for lightweight virus scanning pipelines — ClamAV integration placeholder included.

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✅ Key Features

• 📤 Upload files via POST
• 🧠 Validate file types (only allow safe MIME types)
• ⛔ Reject dangerous file extensions (e.g., .exe, .bat)
• 🔒 Max upload size: 5MB
• 🧪 Modular Flask structure with endpoints in routes/
• 🐳 Docker-ready

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🚀 Endpoint

Upload & Scan File

POST /upload

Request (form-data):

• file: any file (txt, pdf, docx, xlsx, png, jpg)

Responses:

✅ Success:

{
  "filename": "report.pdf",
  "status": "unknown",
  "details": "Virus scan skipped (ClamAV not available)"
}

❌ Errors:

{ "error": "No file part" }

{ "error": "No selected file" }

{ "error": "File type not allowed" }

{ "error": "Forbidden file type" }

{ "error": "Error occurred while processing file." }

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⚙️ Requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Flask

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🖥 How to Run

python app.py

Server runs at:

http://127.0.0.1:5000/

Or with Docker:

docker build -t file-upload-virus-api .
docker run -p 5000:5000 file-upload-virus-api

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🧪 Example Screenshots

• ✅ Successful upload
• ⛔ File type rejected
• 🐞 Upload error simulation

See /screens/ for Postman previews

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💼 Ready-to-Use Version

You can get a ZIP with full code, Dockerfile, and documentation:

👉 Buy it on Gumroad

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📬 Contacts

• Email: [email protected]
• Telegram: @talabovali

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Need this in another language/stack (Node.js, Go, etc)?
Custom dev available — just reach out.