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On-demand internet scanning in Python: scan any IP, CIDR, or country with ScanSearch (opens in new tab)

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Search engines like Shodan and Censys are great, but they show you an index — data collected on their schedule, which can be hours, days, or weeks old. Sometimes you don't want the last snapshot. You want to know what's open right now. That's the gap ScanSearch fills: instead of querying a pre-built index, you trigger a real SYN + service-detection scan of a target through a REST API and get current results back in seconds. Here's how to drive it from Python. Install The SDK is open source (M...

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