Nessus provides an API to access it programmatically from Python. Tenable provides a REST API that we can use any library that allows HTTP requests. We also have the possibility to use specific libraries in Python, such as nessrest: https://github.com/tenable/nessrest.
To use this module in our Python script, import it as we did for other modules after installation. We can install the nessrest module with pip:
$ pip install nessrest
If we try to build the project from the github source code, the dependencies can be satisfied via
pip install -r requirements.txt:
You can import the module in your script ...
