Shodan

What you can do with Shodan

Shodan is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server published by w0h1v. It ranks #1,878 of 144,396 active servers on MCP Toplist, and its repository has 178 GitHub stars. Shodan is listed across 5 registries — Official MCP, Smithery, PulseMCP, mcp.so and Glama, with 4 tracked versions. It was first listed on Dec 11, 2024 and most recently updated on Oct 12, 2026.

What Shodan can and cannot do

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What you need before using Shodan

Connect Shodan and confirm it works

claude mcp add shodan -e "SHODAN_API_KEY=<your SHODAN_API_KEY>" -- npx -y @burtthecoder/mcp-shodan

[mcp_servers.shodan]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@burtthecoder/mcp-shodan"]

[mcp_servers.shodan.env]
SHODAN_API_KEY = "<your SHODAN_API_KEY>"

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shodan": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@burtthecoder/mcp-shodan"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SHODAN_API_KEY": "<your SHODAN_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shodan": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@burtthecoder/mcp-shodan"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SHODAN_API_KEY": "<your SHODAN_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "shodan": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@burtthecoder/mcp-shodan"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SHODAN_API_KEY": "<your SHODAN_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shodan": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@burtthecoder/mcp-shodan"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SHODAN_API_KEY": "<your SHODAN_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shodan": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@burtthecoder/mcp-shodan"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SHODAN_API_KEY": "<your SHODAN_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

When to choose another server

• Virustotal#2,029
• mcp-maigret#3,473
• mcp-dnstwist#3,643
• MCP Otx Server#22,533

No task-specific alternatives are catalogued for Shodanyet; the list above is its publisher's other servers.

What changed, and when this was checked

First listed

Dec 11, 2024

Latest version published

Oct 12, 2026

Version history

4 versions tracked (below)

Requirements evidence

Declared by Glama, last synced Oct 16, 2026. Not independently verified by MCP Toplist.

Profile checked

Not yet — purpose, capabilities and requirements above come from registry data only

Ranking data as of

Oct 16, 2026

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