MAC Address Lookup: Find Vendor, OUI & Device Type Vendor API

The Vendor API from MAC Address Lookup: Find Vendor, OUI & Device Type — 1 operation(s) for vendor.

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GET /v1/vendor/{mac} Vendor name only, plain text, no API key required #

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OpenAPI Specification

macadress-vendor-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: macadress.com Vendor API
  version: '1.0'
  description: 'MAC address / OUI vendor lookup. Every field on the lookup response beyond the original v1 set (see the x-added-in-version extension on each) is additive and nullable: existing integrations reading only the original fields are unaffected by new ones appearing alongside them.'
  contact:
    url: https://macadress.com/docs
  license:
    name: See https://macadress.com/terms
servers:
- url: https://api.macadress.com
security:
- apiKeyHeader: []
- apiKeyQuery: []
tags:
- name: Vendor
paths:
  /v1/vendor/{mac}:
    get:
      operationId: vendorName
      summary: Vendor name only, plain text, no API key required
      security: []
      description: 'The entire response body is the registered vendor name as text/plain, nothing else. Free and keyless: 1,000 lookups per UTC calendar day per client IP, plus a 60 requests/minute ceiling. Sending a valid API key lifts the daily cap to your plan''s cycle quota (the first 1,000/day still don''t draw it down) and applies your plan''s requests/minute instead of the anonymous 60. Responses set ''Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *'' and a cacheable Cache-Control.'
      parameters:
      - name: mac
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Any common format (see GET /v1/mac/{mac}); a bare OUI also works.
        example: 00:03:93:AB:12:34
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Registered vendor organization name
          content:
            text/plain:
              schema:
                type: string
                example: Apple, Inc.
        '400':
          description: Input did not parse as a MAC address. Body is "invalid mac address".
          content:
            text/plain:
              schema:
                type: string
                example: invalid mac address
        '404':
          description: 'Valid address with no vendor name to return. Body is "not registered" (prefix not in the current IEEE snapshot, or a private block) or "locally administered" (a locally administered address, the common privacy-randomized case).

            '
          content:
            text/plain:
              schema:
                type: string
                example: not registered
        '429':
          description: 'Daily grant used up (anonymous, with a Retry-After header) or the 60/minute burst exceeded; body "rate limited". For a keyed caller past the grant with no cycle quota left, body "over quota".

            '
          content:
            text/plain:
              schema:
                type: string
                example: rate limited
      tags:
      - Vendor
components:
  securitySchemes:
    apiKeyHeader:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: 'Authorization: Bearer mk_...'
    apiKeyQuery:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: api_key
externalDocs:
  description: Full documentation with request/response examples
  url: https://macadress.com/docs
x-provenance:
  method: harvested
  publisher: 'MAC Address Lookup: Find Vendor, OUI & Device Type'
  source: https://macadress.com/static/openapi.yaml?v=a2b6a80c
  note: split by refine-openapis from the provider's own published document, verified by fetch (openapi/_original/*.fetch.json);
    stamped by stamp-openapi-provenance.py (roadmap#793)