Intro to the Censys CLI

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In this example we use jq for more info please checkout the jq docs.

# Install censys with pip
pip install censys

# Configure your credentials
censys config

# Get page of http services
censys search "service.service_name: HTTP" | jq '.[] | {ip: .ip}'

# Get ips of Telsa Powerpacks
censys search 'services.http.response.html_title: "Tesla Energy Powerpack"' | jq -c '.[] | {ip: .ip}'

# View ip and save to file
censys view 41.215.79.210 -f json -o tesla.json

# Parse out port and protocol
cat tesla.json | jq '[.services[] | {port: .port, protocol: .service_name}]'

# Parse out single field
cat tesla.json | jq '.operating_system'

# Count services
cat tesla.json | jq '{service_count: .services | length}'

# View an IP on a certain date
censys view 41.215.79.210 --at-time 2021-05-29 | jq '{ip: .ip, observed: .last_updated_at}'