Introduction
This is an article where the process of shodan installation is the main focus. Before starting the installation, a brief explanation about shodan will be just perfect. According to Wikipedia, shodan is a search engine that lets the user find specific types of computers connected to the internet using a variety of filters. Some have also described it as a search engine of service banners, which are metadata that the server sends back to the client. It is quite a useful tool to have.
Installation Steps
The installation of shodan is important in order to use it in the system. In all of the steps following, try to use one user account. For an example, just use a normal user in the operating system. So, using the following steps, install it in on the system :
1. Using ‘pip’ command, execute it for the installation of shodan. Just type the following command :
pip install shodan
Therefore, using the command above, execute it in the command line. The following output of the above command execution will appear as follows :
user@hostname:~$ pip install shodan
Collecting shodan
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/24/36/87e5e4cab32ffeba1c7304f7dadc00b93491bc3b3de0b599ccacfa3b3671/shodan-1.10.4.tar.gz (44kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 51kB 578kB/s
Collecting XlsxWriter (from shodan)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/8d/d0/f4ee9c621902d18807dd88b0a0ff4426666af8dd1e952c4943a9415f3eeb/XlsxWriter-1.1.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (142kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 143kB 239kB/s
Collecting click (from shodan)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/fa/37/45185cb5abbc30d7257104c434fe0b07e5a195a6847506c074527aa599ec/Click-7.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (81kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 81kB 271kB/s
Collecting click-plugins (from shodan)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/95/dd/fef84cf1678418f241ef542c0288bdf215bdd3e35f1fe03dc5223a2e80ba/click_plugins-1.0.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting colorama (from shodan)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/4f/a6/728666f39bfff1719fc94c481890b2106837da9318031f71a8424b662e12/colorama-0.4.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting requests>=2.2.1 (from shodan)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/7d/e3/20f3d364d6c8e5d2353c72a67778eb189176f08e873c9900e10c0287b84b/requests-2.21.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (57kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 61kB 172kB/s
Collecting urllib3<1.25,>=1.21.1 (from requests>=2.2.1->shodan)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/62/00/ee1d7de624db8ba7090d1226aebefab96a2c71cd5cfa7629d6ad3f61b79e/urllib3-1.24.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (118kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 122kB 261kB/s
Collecting certifi>=2017.4.17 (from requests>=2.2.1->shodan)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/9f/e0/accfc1b56b57e9750eba272e24c4dddeac86852c2bebd1236674d7887e8a/certifi-2018.11.29-py2.py3-none-any.whl (154kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 163kB 248kB/s
Collecting chardet<3.1.0,>=3.0.2 (from requests>=2.2.1->shodan)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/bc/a9/01ffebfb562e4274b6487b4bb1ddec7ca55ec7510b22e4c51f14098443b8/chardet-3.0.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (133kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 143kB 158kB/s
Collecting idna<2.9,>=2.5 (from requests>=2.2.1->shodan)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/14/2c/cd551d81dbe15200be1cf41cd03869a46fe7226e7450af7a6545bfc474c9/idna-2.8-py2.py3-none-any.whl (58kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 61kB 71kB/s
Building wheels for collected packages: shodan
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for shodan ... done
Stored in directory: /home/user/.cache/pip/wheels/b3/b9/7f/6a49be594c397f32c88f110e76eb0d0bd162a56998c1669037
Successfully built shodan
Installing collected packages: XlsxWriter, click, click-plugins, colorama, urllib3, certifi, chardet, idna, requests, shodan
Successfully installed XlsxWriter-1.1.4 certifi-2018.11.29 chardet-3.0.4 click-7.0 click-plugins-1.0.4 colorama-0.4.1 idna-2.8 requests-2.21.0 shodan-1.10.4 urllib3-1.24.1
user@hostname:~$
2. Next step, test the installed ‘shodan’. Just execute the command to start using shodan by typing it in the command line :
user@hostname:~$ shodan Usage: shodan [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]... Options: -h, --help Show this message and exit. Commands: alert Manage the network alerts for your account convert Convert the given input data file into a different format. count Returns the number of results for a search data Bulk data access to Shodan download Download search results and save them in a compressed JSON... honeyscore Check whether the IP is a honeypot or not. host View all available information for an IP address info Shows general information about your account init Initialize the Shodan command-line myip Print your external IP address org Manage your organization's access to Shodan parse Extract information out of compressed JSON files. radar Real-Time Map of some results as Shodan finds them. scan Scan an IP/ netblock using Shodan. search Search the Shodan database stats Provide summary information about a search query stream Stream data in real-time. user@hostname:~$
Conclusion
Finally, just remember one thing for sure. In the end, the installation of the above program does not apply to other user. It is only the user whom install the program that can actually execute it. In order for another user to be able to use ‘shodan’, it is necessary for that user to install it first. So, the installation of shodan for this user is a success.