Shodan On-Demand Scanning API
Request crawls of specific IPs, netblocks, or the entire Internet.
Shodan On-Demand Scanning API is one of 15 APIs that Shodan publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification and an AsyncAPI event-driven specification.
This API exposes 13 JSON Schema definitions.
Tagged areas include On-Demand Scanning. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, authentication docs, a JSON-LD context, an AsyncAPI specification, and 13 JSON Schemas.
This API exposes 6 operations across 6 paths, and defines 1 schema. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.shodan.io.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Shodan On-Demand Scanning API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the query as key (apiKey).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
apiKey— Shodan API key.
Paths & Operations 6
Across 6 paths, the API surfaces 6 operations — 4 GET, 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Request crawls of specific IPs, netblocks, or the entire Internet.
Schemas 1
The contract defines 1 schema that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed is Scan (5 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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