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shodan-hash

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The shodan-hash is a command-line to calculate simple hashes of a website, favicon, local file or text. It can be used freely without a Shodan account.

Installation

Grab the latest binary for your operating system.

Usage

Terminal window
$ shodan-hash <COMMAND> <OPTIONS>


Calculate the favicon hash of a local file, hostname or URL


Usage: shodan-hash <COMMAND>


Commands:
    url   Calculate hashes of an URL
    file  Calculate the hash of a local file or a favicon
    text  Calculate the hash of a string
    help  Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)


Options:
    -h, --help     Print help
    -V, --version  Print version

url

Calculate hash of an URL or hostname. Schema and port are optional (default to https and 443).

Usage: shodan-hash url <URL>


Arguments:
    <URL>  Web page URL


Options:
    -h, --help  Print help

Due to limitations not all hashes are available.

HashAvailability
http.dom_hash❌
http.favicon.hash✅
http.headers_hash✅
http.html_hash✅
http.server_hash✅
http.title_hash✅
SSL hashes❌

Example:

Terminal window
$ shodan-hash url google.com
Requesting https://google.com/
Requesting https://www.google.com/
google.com
  hash: 37619786
  http.favicon.hash: 708578229
  http.headers_hash: 1465093010
  http.html_hash: 2026802952
  http.server_hash: 1939508423
  http.title: "301 Moved"
  http.title_hash: -410180139
https://www.google.com/
  hash: 989933317
  http.favicon.hash: 708578229
  http.headers_hash: -851755872
  http.html_hash: -1311116960
  http.server_hash: 1939508423
  http.title: "Google"
  http.title_hash: -573771547

file

Calculate the hash of a local file or a local favicon. The favicon's hash is calculated differently, so if you want to hash a file as a favicon, make sure to add the --favicon (or -f) option.

Usage: shodan-hash file [OPTIONS] <FILE_PATH>


Arguments:
    <FILE_PATH>  Local file path


Options:
    -f, --favicon  Treat file as favicon
    -h, --help     Print help

Example:

Terminal window
$ shodan-hash file google.ico
google.ico
  hash: -1846423585


$ shodan-hash file --favicon google.ico
google.ico
  http.favicon.hash: 708578229

text

Calculate the hash of a string.

Usage: shodan-hash text <TEXT>


Arguments:
    <TEXT>


Options:
    -h, --help  Print help

Example:

Terminal window
$ shodan-hash text shodan
  hash: 1201100143