A simple python script which accepts an executable file as input argument and then communicates with VirusTotal API to check whether that file has been scanned (if yes, provide results from different AVs). Requires a valid VirusTotal API key to work.

virustotal.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import sys,requests
import json,hashlib

def main():
        file = sys.argv[1]

        with open(file,"rb") as f:
                bytes = f.read()
                hash = hashlib.sha256(bytes).hexdigest();

        params = {'apikey': 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx', 'resource': '{}'.format(hash)}
        headers = {
        "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate",
        "User-Agent" : "gzip,  My Python requests library example client or username"
        }

        response = requests.get('https://www.virustotal.com/vtapi/v2/file/report',params=params,headers=headers)
        parsed = json.loads(response.text)
        print json.dumps(parsed, indent=4, sort_keys=True)

if __name__ == "__main__":
        if(len(sys.argv) != 2):
                print '[*] Usage: {} file'.format(sys.argv[0])
                sys.exit()
        else:
                main()