Scanners & probes

CensysInspect

Censys's internet-wide scanner; HTTP scans identify as CensysInspect and collect service information for the Censys search/attack-surface dataset without attempting authentication.

Dossier

Operator: Censys
Documentation: docs.censys.com
robots.txt token: None documented
Feeds: security scan, research
Follows robots.txt: Not documentedNot a robots.txt crawler; opt-out is by firewalling published IP ranges/ASNs.
How to verify: Published IP rangesdocs.censys.com
Names in our logs: censysinspect
Researched: 23 Oct 2026

Observed on New Runtime

Baseline 2026-10-23 · 93-day window · loading live numbers…

Requests: 779
Days active: 67 / 93
First seen: 23 Jul 2026
Last seen: 23 Oct 2026

Regularscanner

Daily requests across the observed window, square-root scale.

Identity check claimed vs verified

No per-family identity check is published for this reader; its name is a claim.

What it reads crawler journeys · current window

The crawler-journeys aggregate tracks reading depth for the busiest named crawlers only; this family is not among them.

Sources

docs.censys.comdocs.censys.com/docs/opt-out-of-data-collection