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Search API Query Construction Cheat Sheet

 Keywords and Phrases 

How to search… 

q field 

Request Parameters 

One Term 

q=malware  

  

Phrases  

q="the quick brown fox"  

  

Names or Words in Proximity   

q="Pat Smith"~2  

  

Multiple terms, AND  

q=(hack AND password)   

  

Combination of terms and tokenized entities  

q="Pat Smith" OR email:pat.smith@email.com OR ccn:11111111111111111  

  

Phone numbers  

q="3031234567" OR "303-123-4567"  

  

IP addresses  

q="127.0.0.1\/24"  

  

Exclude words or parameters  

q=password -hack  

&domain=-pastebin.com  

Emails, Cards, SSNs 

How to search… 

q field 

Request Parameters 

All emails from a domain, including all subdomains  

q=email.domain:company.com  

&emailDomain=company.com  

All emails from a domain, not including subdomains  

q=email:company.com  

&email=company.com  

Individual email addresses  

q=email:pat.smith@gmail.com  

&email=pat.smith@gmail.com&highlight=true  

Credit cards  

q=ccn:4234567890123456  

&ccn=4234567890123456&highlight=true  

Social security numbers  

q=ssn:123-45-6789  

&ssn=123-45-6789&highlight=true  

Data Leaks & Data Networks 

How to search… 

q field 

Request Parameters 

Filter to a Domain  

q=domain:past.io  

&domain=past.io 

Filter to a Data Leak  

q=leak:linkedin  

&leak=linkedin

Filter to TOR  

q=network:onion  

&source=onion 

Dates 

How to search… 

q field 

Request Parameters 

Date ranges  

  

&from=2020-12-01T00:00:00Z&to=2020-12-31T00:00:00Z 

Other Filters 

How to search… 

q field 

Request Parameters 

Results with any Hackishness   

  

&hack_min=.01 

Results in a Language  

  

&language=  (this link has a list of values) 

Result Options 

How to search… 

q field 

Request Parameters 

Sort results by  

  

&sort=h   (relevancy, hackishness, or date crawled)   

De-duplicate similar results  

  

&similar=false 

Return snippets  

  

&detail=snippet 

Highlight ‘q’ field terms  

  

&highlight=true