SniffCat

aid: sniffcat
name: SniffCat
description: 'SniffCat is a privacy-focused IP abuse database and OSINT threat-intelligence platform built by Polish developer
  Sefinek, positioned as a community-moderated AbuseIPDB alternative. Sysadmins, hosting providers, ISPs and security researchers
  report malicious IP addresses against a published 27-term abuse-category vocabulary, and consume the resulting reputation
  data through a free, versioned REST API at api.sniffcat.com: abuse-confidence lookups, per-IP report history, and score-ordered
  blocklist feeds in JSON or plain text for direct firewall ingestion. Entitlement is role-based rather than paid, with published
  daily quotas per operation and trust levels that weight how much each reporter moves an IP''s score. The platform is in
  Early Access / open beta and publishes no machine-readable contract.'
url: https://sniffcat.apievangelist.com/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
created: '2026-08-19'
modified: '2026-08-19'
specificationVersion: '0.21'
tags:
- Threat Intelligence
- IP Reputation
- abuse-database
- Cybersecurity
- OSINT
- Network Security
- sysadmin-tools
- Blacklist
- abuse-reporting
- ip-blocklist
- IP Intelligence
- Threat Feeds
tags_raw:
- threat-intelligence
- ip-reputation
- abuse-database
- cybersecurity
- osint
- network-security
- sysadmin-tools
- blocklist
- abuse-reporting
- ip-blocklist
- ip-intelligence
- threat-feeds
- Blocklist
apis:
- name: SniffCat REST API
  description: Documented, versioned REST API (/api/v1/*) for checking IPs, retrieving blacklist feeds and report history,
    and submitting abuse reports. Uses X-Secret-Token header authentication with role-based rate limits.
  humanURL: https://sniffcat.com/documentation/api
  baseURL: https://api.sniffcat.com
  tags:
  - Threat Intelligence
  - IP Reputation
  - abuse-database
  - Cybersecurity
  - OSINT
  - Network Security
  - sysadmin-tools
  - Blacklist
  tags_raw:
  - threat-intelligence
  - ip-reputation
  - abuse-database
  - cybersecurity
  - osint
  - network-security
  - sysadmin-tools
  - blocklist
  - Blocklist
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://sniffcat.com/documentation
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://sniffcat.com/documentation/api
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://sniffcat.com/documentation/api
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/sniffcat-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/sniffcat-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/sniffcat-problem-types.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/sniffcat-rate-limits.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/sniffcat-data-model.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/sniffcat-report-categories.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/sniffcat-sandbox.yml
  x-evidence:
    verified: '2026-08-19'
    method: live probe + published reference
    docs: https://sniffcat.com/documentation/api documents five endpoints with full parameter, response and error tables.
    endpoint_check: GET https://api.sniffcat.com/ -> 200 {"success":true,"status":200,"version":"0.1.5"}; GET https://api.sniffcat.com/api/v1/check?ip=1.1.1.1
      -> 403 "Missing API token in request headers." with live RateLimit headers.
    machine_readable_contract: none published (openapi.json/swagger.json/api-docs/redoc all 404 on api.sniffcat.com and sniffcat.com)
maintainers:
- FN: Sefinek
  email: support@sniffcat.com
  url: https://sefinek.net
generated:
  by: apis.io/add
  model: claude-opus-4-8
  confidence: 88
  at: '2026-08-19T02:43:05.010Z'
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.sniffcat.com/
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/sniffcat-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/sniffcat-domain-security.yml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://sniffcat.com/documentation
- type: Documentation
  url: https://sniffcat.com/documentation
- type: APIReference
  url: https://sniffcat.com/documentation/api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://sniffcat.com/documentation/api
- type: Support
  url: https://sniffcat.com/tickets
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://discord.gg/S7NDzCzQTg
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/SniffCatDB
- type: SignUp
  url: https://sniffcat.com/register
- type: Login
  url: https://sniffcat.com/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://sniffcat.com/terms-of-use
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.sniffcat.com/
- type: Integrations
  url: https://sniffcat.com/documentation/integrations
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/sniffcat-lifecycle.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/sniffcat-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/sniffcat-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/sniffcat-problem-types.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/sniffcat-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/sniffcat-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/sniffcat-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/sniffcat-packages.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/sniffcat-report-categories.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/sniffcat-data-model.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/sniffcat-sandbox.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/sniffcat-conformance.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/sniffcat-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/sniffcat-security.txt
- type: Security
  url: security/sniffcat-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/sniffcat-llms.txt
image: https://sniffcat.com/images/og-preview.jpg
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-19'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 17
  pass: local-v1
x-evidence:
  round: '2026-08-19'
  admitted_from: Add-API gate auto-publish 2026-08-19 02:45 UTC, confidence 88.
  slug: No rename needed — sniffcat.com already yields sniffcat under the domain rule.
  split_surface:
    api.sniffcat.com: root 200 returning {"success":true,"status":200,"version":"0.1.5"}, invented path 404 — discriminates.
      /api/v1 is the real surface.
    sniffcat.com: USER-AGENT FILTERED, not blocked. A default curl/SDK/agent UA gets a 5,511b Cloudflare "Attention Required"
      403. The same URL with an ordinary Chrome UA returns 200 — the API documentation page is 10,853b of real HTML. Any agent,
      SDK or crawler sending its own UA is refused; a browser is not. An agent-readiness gap, and cheap for them to close.
    no_llms_txt: 'Established only after the UA correction: with a browser UA, /llms.txt and /openapi.json both return honest
      404s. The 403 had masked their absence.'
  no_openapi: None published on either host. The pipeline deliberately derived none — there is no openapi/ directory here.
  no_mcp_server_and_none_claimed: 'mcp/sniffcat-mcp.yml is status: candidate, published_by_provider: false. It records that
    /mcp 404s on both hosts, no MCP package exists on npm or PyPI, and no MCP server appears in the docs or the GitHub org.
    The tool set in it is an API Evangelist PROPOSAL and no MCPServer pointer is wired, because that pointer would assert
    an agent surface SniffCat does not serve.'
  correction: 'I first checked github.com/sniffcat — an org with 0 public repos — and concluded there was no ecosystem. Wrong
    org. The real one is github.com/SniffCatDB: 4 repos including a Python SDK (sniffcat.py) and three integration tools (Cloudflare-WAF-To-SniffCat,
    T-Pot-To-SniffCat, UFW-SniffCat-Reporter), all pushed 2026-08-18.'