NodeJS - Upload ~36MB file to VirusTotal failing

Question

I'm trying to upload a 36MB zip file to Virus Total using their public API in NodeJS using request. I'm currently coming across this issue when trying to upload and can't figure out what to do next to fix it. Their API doesn't state any file size limit, and their frontend uploader specifies a 128MB upload limit.

<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<title>413 Request Entity Too Large</title>
</head>
<body text=#000000 bgcolor=#ffffff>
<h1>Error: Request Entity Too Large</h1>
<h2>Your client issued a request that was too large.
</h2>
<h2></h2>
</body></html>

Code is straight forward and simple, but really don't know what to do to fix it. Any help is appreciated.

var request = require('request');
var fs = require('fs');

var formData = {
  file: fs.createReadStream('./path/to/file.zip'),
  apikey: 'public-vt-apikey'
};

var options = {
  url: 'https://www.virustotal.com/vtapi/v2/file/scan',
  formData: formData
};

request.post(options, function(err, res, body) {
  console.log(body);
});

[This](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19917401/node-js-express-request-entity-too-large) seems related but it's for Express which you are not using so not sure if it's relevant. — aug, May 17 '15 at 02:32
maybe that??? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19917401/node-js-express-request-entity-too-large — Alejandro Teixeira Muñoz, May 17 '15 at 03:02
Try pipe your file to their api.. Check for streaming files to their api — Sathish, May 17 '15 at 05:29

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 22 '15 at 11:57

1

The VirusTotal file/scan API call is limited to 32MB. If you have a good use case for scanning large files you can ask VirusTotal for access to another API call for larger files which can can files up to 200MB.

answered May 22 '15 at 11:57

karl

165
9

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 17 '15 at 07:07

0

Express adds a limit over the size of http request body that it can handle. You need to override this. var bodyParser = require('body-parser'); app.use(bodyParser.json({limit: '50mb'})); app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({limit: '50mb', extended: true}));

answered May 17 '15 at 07:07

Rahul jain

39
2

This doesn't have anything to do with Express. – Dustin May 17 '15 at 12:34

NodeJS - Upload ~36MB file to VirusTotal failing

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