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Shodan Rest Scan Create Example

SecuritySearchInternetDevicesIoTVulnerabilitiesCVEAttack SurfaceThreat IntelligenceReconnaissanceNetworkDNSScanningPublic APIs

Shodan Rest Scan 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

{
  "request": {
    "method": "POST",
    "url": "https://api.shodan.io/shodan/scan?key=YOUR_API_KEY",
    "headers": {
      "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
    },
    "body": "ips=198.51.100.0/24,203.0.113.42"
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "headers": {
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "body": {
      "id": "RYU7Y52H4VHHC4SF",
      "count": 257,
      "credits_left": 64779,
      "status": "SUBMITTING",
      "created": "2026-05-15T13:00:00Z"
    }
  }
}

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