The Complete Guide to Shodan: Collect. Analyze. Visualize. Make Internet Intelligence Work For You.

by John Matherly

Learn everything there is to know about Shodan from the founder himself. The book covers all aspects from the website through to the developer API with exercises to help test your understanding.

108 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 28, 2016

Reviews

[Gene Ishchuk · Rating 4 out of 5]

not that extensive as I would like it to be.
damn, I have to buy credits even to play with it, I wasn't able to test a lot, the only thing available for me would be the web-interface & publicly shared reports, some history data as well.
John's ghost writers could be more eloquent when describing the tool they have developed themselves

[Sebastian Gebski · Rating 4 out of 5]

More like a booklet than a book (in fact).

3-4 stars as it does it's job, but OTOH I believe you can easily manage w/o it - content of the book ain't synthetic, it doesn't provide any broader perspective (e.g. to present some interesting scenarios Shodan can be used for) - nope, nothing of that sort. It's a pure (but accurate) description of what you can get with queries, how to shape the queries, what are the limitations, etc.

[Shanni · Rating 4 out of 5]

Unfortunately not as detailed as I'd hoped, but it's a great intro and reference for search terms and methods. Personally found a lot of value in the practice exercises.

[F · Rating 1 out of 5]

one star for Appendix..

[Mayur Sinha · Rating 4 out of 5]

A perfect guide to get started with Shodan. But it's always better to read the updated documentation.