censys_cert_search

Pack: censys · Connect: https://pipeworx.io/mcp (see Connect below for a single-pack URL)

No MCP client? Call it directly: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/censys_cert_search for the schema, then POST the same URL with its arguments for the data.

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

NameTypeRequiredDescription
qstringyesCensys certificate query (CenQL), e.g. “names: example.com”, “parsed.issuer.organization: \“Let’s Encrypt\"", or a SHA-256 fingerprint
per_pageintegernoMax certificates to return (default 25, max 50)
_apiKeystringyesCensys 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 — every tool in the catalog, including this one — or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}
Connect to just the censys pack
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "censys": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/censys/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

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