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Shodan Rest Alert Create Example

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Shodan Rest Alert Create Example is an example object payload from Shodan, with 2 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

requestresponse

Example Payload

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{
  "request": {
    "method": "POST",
    "url": "https://api.shodan.io/shodan/alert?key=YOUR_API_KEY",
    "headers": {
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "body": {
      "name": "Corp External Surface",
      "filters": {
        "ip": ["198.51.100.0/24", "203.0.113.0/24"]
      },
      "expires": 0
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "headers": {
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "body": {
      "id": "ALERT_ABC123",
      "name": "Corp External Surface",
      "created": "2026-05-15T13:00:00Z",
      "expires": 0,
      "size": 512,
      "filters": {
        "ip": ["198.51.100.0/24", "203.0.113.0/24"]
      },
      "triggers": {
        "any": { "enabled": true }
      }
    }
  }
}