`censys_cert_search`

Pack: censys · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/censys/mcp

Search certificates for — searches Censys’s certificate-transparency dataset by domain, SAN, or SHA-256 fingerprint. Returns fingerprint, names (SANs), issuer, and validity window per certificate. Example: censys_cert_search({ q: “names: example.com”, per_page: 25, _apiKey: “your-censys-token” })

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`q`	string	yes	Censys certificate query (CenQL), e.g. “names: example.com”, “parsed.issuer.organization: \“Let’s Encrypt\"", or a SHA-256 fingerprint
`per_page`	integer	no	Max certificates to return (default 25, max 50)
`_apiKey`	string	yes	Censys Platform Personal Access Token. Optionally ”:”.

Example call

Arguments

{
  "q": "names: example.com",
  "per_page": 25,
  "_apiKey": "your-censys-token"
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/censys/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"censys_cert_search","arguments":{"q":"names: example.com","per_page":25,"_apiKey":"your-censys-token"}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('censys_cert_search', {
  "q": "names: example.com",
  "per_page": 25,
  "_apiKey": "your-censys-token"
});

More examples

{
  "q": "parsed.issuer.organization: \"Let's Encrypt\" and names: *.example.com",
  "_apiKey": "your-censys-token"
}

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "censys": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/censys/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

censys_cert_search