Usage question: Do I need to submit my files using vt-cli (official) first?

[averyfreeman]

Hi,

Thanks for the project - I got a response from the two file scanning features I think might be user error, so I wanted to ask if I need to submit all my files to VT prior to scanning them?

Here's the output; known cracked file used as test

❯ ./vt-cli.py -anf $DOWNLOADS/sublime_text.binary.cracked

[logo omitted]

[-] expected a [SHA-256, SHA-1 or MD5] hash, something went wrong please try again.

Exiting due to a wrong file hash type.
Unclosed connector
connections: ['[(<aiohttp.client_proto.ResponseHandler object at 0x70d137786270>, 68404.990304331)]']
connector: <aiohttp.connector.TCPConnector object at 0x70d1377ffd10>

other option:

./vt-cli.py -scanf $DOWNLOADS/sublime_text.binary.cracked

[logo omitted]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/avery/build/VT-CLI/./vt-cli.py", line 241, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/avery/build/VT-CLI/./vt-cli.py", line 197, in main
    file_scanner(path=args.file_scan, client=client)
  File "/home/avery/build/VT-CLI/./vt-cli.py", line 163, in file_scanner
    hash_obj = client.get_object("/files/{}", hash)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/avery/build/VT-CLI/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/vt/client.py", line 642, in get_object
    return make_sync(self.get_object_async(path, *path_args, params=params))
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/avery/build/VT-CLI/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/vt/utils.py", line 27, in make_sync
    return event_loop.run_until_complete(future)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/avery/.rye/py/[email protected]/lib/python3.11/asyncio/base_events.py", line 654, in run_until_complete
    return future.result()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/avery/build/VT-CLI/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/vt/client.py", line 652, in get_object_async
    return await self._response_to_object(response)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/avery/build/VT-CLI/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/vt/client.py", line 310, in _response_to_object
    json_response = await self._response_to_json(response)
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/avery/build/VT-CLI/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/vt/client.py", line 306, in _response_to_json
    raise error
vt.error.APIError: ('NotFoundError', 'File "02c867f3bc45fcb044326f1eb1eb7094" not found')
Unclosed client session
client_session: <aiohttp.client.ClientSession object at 0x772fb4b74a90>
Unclosed connector
connections: ['[(<aiohttp.client_proto.ResponseHandler object at 0x772fb4cfee40>, 68414.727696059)]']
connector: <aiohttp.connector.TCPConnector object at 0x772fb4b0fed0>

Thanks

edit: forgot to include the version of python I'm using:

python -V
Python 3.11.9