Complete Guide to Shodan

[Calli]

I am going through this Book "Complete Guide to Shodan" and there is this code but it doesn't work

import shodan
api = shodan.Shodan('myapikeyhere')

# Wrap the request in a try/ except block to catch errors
try:
    results = api.search('apache')
    print('Results found: %s' % results['total'])
    for result in results['matches']:
        print('IP: %s' % result['ip_str'])
        print(result['data'])
        print('')
except shodan.APIError, e:
    print('Error: %s' % e)

The error I am getting

 except shodan.APIError, e:
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: multiple exception types must be parenthesized

[snippsat]

There is some old Python 2 code in there,maybe the book is a little old and not updated.
In Python 3 must do it like this:

except shodan.APIError as e:

Updated with newer string formatting f-string.

import shodan

api = shodan.Shodan('myapikeyhere')
# Wrap the request in a try/ except block to catch errors
try:
    results = api.search('apache')
    print(f"Results found: {results['total']}")
    for result in results['matches']:
        print(f"IP: {result['ip_str']}")
        print(result['data'])
        print('')
except shodan.APIError as error:
    print(f'Error: {error}')

[Calli]

There is some old Python 2 code in there,maybe the book is a little old and not updated.
In Python 3 must do it like this:

except shodan.APIError as e:

Updated with newer string formatting f-string.

import shodan

api = shodan.Shodan('myapikeyhere')
# Wrap the request in a try/ except block to catch errors
try:
    results = api.search('apache')
    print(f"Results found: {results['total']}")
    for result in results['matches']:
        print(f"IP: {result['ip_str']}")
        print(result['data'])
        print('')
except shodan.APIError as error:
    print(f'Error: {error}')

I'm getting this error what could be the reason

AttributeError: partially initialized module 'shodan' has no attribute 'Shodan' (most likely due to a circular import). Did you mean: 'shodan'?

I have shodan install

pip install shodan
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Requirement already satisfied: shodan in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/shodan-1.27.0-py3.10.egg (1.27.0)
Requirement already satisfied: XlsxWriter in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from shodan) (3.0.2)
Requirement already satisfied: click in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from shodan) (7.0)
Requirement already satisfied: click-plugins in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from shodan) (1.1.1)
Requirement already satisfied: colorama in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from shodan) (0.4.5)
Requirement already satisfied: requests>=2.2.1 in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from shodan) (2.28.0)
Requirement already satisfied: idna<4,>=2.5 in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from requests>=2.2.1->shodan) (2.7)
Requirement already satisfied: certifi>=2017.4.17 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from requests>=2.2.1->shodan) (2020.6.20)
Requirement already satisfied: urllib3<1.27,>=1.21.1 in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from requests>=2.2.1->shodan) (1.24.3)
Requirement already satisfied: charset-normalizer~=2.0.0 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from requests>=2.2.1->shodan) (2.0.6)

python3 -m pip install shodan
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Requirement already satisfied: shodan in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/shodan-1.27.0-py3.10.egg (1.27.0)
Requirement already satisfied: XlsxWriter in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from shodan) (3.0.2)
Requirement already satisfied: click in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from shodan) (7.0)
Requirement already satisfied: click-plugins in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from shodan) (1.1.1)
Requirement already satisfied: colorama in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from shodan) (0.4.5)
Requirement already satisfied: requests>=2.2.1 in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from shodan) (2.28.0)
Requirement already satisfied: charset-normalizer~=2.0.0 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from requests>=2.2.1->shodan) (2.0.6)
Requirement already satisfied: certifi>=2017.4.17 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from requests>=2.2.1->shodan) (2020.6.20)
Requirement already satisfied: idna<4,>=2.5 in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from requests>=2.2.1->shodan) (2.7)
Requirement already satisfied: urllib3<1.27,>=1.21.1 in /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages (from requests>=2.2.1->shodan) (1.24.3)

[snippsat]

I'm getting this error what could be the reason

See if you have named a script shodan.py and rename or delete it.

>>> import shodan
>>>
>>> dir(shodan)
['APIError', 'Shodan', '__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__', '__spec__', 'client', 'exception', 'helpers', 'stream']


>>> shodan.Shodan('myapikeyhere')
<shodan.client.Shodan object at 0x000001E23C9BA8C0>

>>> shodan.Shodan.Dns
<class 'shodan.client.Shodan.Dns'>

[Calli]

I'm getting this error what could be the reason

See if you have named a script shodan.py and rename or delete it.

>>> import shodan
>>>
>>> dir(shodan)
['APIError', 'Shodan', '__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__', '__spec__', 'client', 'exception', 'helpers', 'stream']


>>> shodan.Shodan('myapikeyhere')
<shodan.client.Shodan object at 0x000001E23C9BA8C0>

>>> shodan.Shodan.Dns
<class 'shodan.client.Shodan.Dns'>

My output

>>> import shodan
>>> dir(shodan)
['APIError', 'Shodan', '__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__', '__spec__', 'client', 'exception', 'helpers', 'stream']
>>> shodan.Shodan('myapikeyhere')
<shodan.client.Shodan object at 0x7fed4f96bd60>
>>> shodan.Shodan.Dns
<class 'shodan.client.Shodan.Dns'>
>>>