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MattK_CensysCensys Community Manager
 Censys Platform use cases, findings, and queries
Cool Query of the Week May 29, 2025: Hosts with open directories with executable files

Hello again! In this iteration of Cool Query of the Week, we’ve got a query for hosts labeled as open directories that contain executable files in their endpoints’ HTTP bodies. Narrow this down with other executable file extensions, geographic ranges, or whatever else is important to you.host.services.endpoints.http.body: {".exe", ".hta"} and host.services.labels.value: OPEN_DIRECTORYAs a reminder, you can convert any of the old queries using Censys Search Language shown in the CQOTW series using the Platform’s built-in query converter.

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 Search Q&A
302 when using the Python API

Hello!I hadn’t touched my code for a week or two, and running it again I found that it didn’t work anymore. I went back to almost one of the examples from the official repository:from censys.search import CensysHostsif __name__ == "__main__": api_id = "XXX" api_secret = "YYY" h = CensysHosts(api_id, api_secret) query = h.search("services.service_name: FTP", per_page=1, pages=2) all_hosts = query.view_all() print(all_hosts)And I’m still encountering an exception:Traceback (most recent call last): File "[...]\debug.py", line 10, in <module> all_hosts = query.view_all() ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "[...]\.venv\Lib\site-packages\censys\search\v2\api.py", line 208, in view_all for hit in self.__call__(): ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "[...]\.venv\Lib\site-packages\censys\search\v2\api.py", line 168, in __call__ self.total = result["total"] ~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^TypeError: string indices must be integers, not 'str'While debugging, I

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