Port Scan API: Detect Open TCP Ports

A JSON API to check open TCP ports on both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Use this API to scan your server IPs for open ports, perform network probing, and support vulnerability assessments in your security workflows.

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Available from Growth Plan and up

Consumes 5 credits per API call

# Example Curl request from the command line:
                          
curl -X POST "https://api.apivoid.com/v2/port-scan" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE" \
     -d '{"ip": "1.2.3.4"}'

# Example JSON output for a 200 HTTP status code:

{
    "ip": "1.2.3.4",
    "open_ports": 4,
    "scanned_ports": 20,
    "ports": [
        {
            "port": 21,
            "proto": "tcp",
            "status": "open",
            "service": "ftp"
        },
        {
            "port": 22,
            "proto": "tcp",
            "status": "open",
            "service": "ssh"
        },
        {
            "port": 23,
            "proto": "tcp",
            "status": "closed",
            "service": "telnet"
        },
        {
            "port": 25,
            "proto": "tcp",
            "status": "closed",
            "service": "smtp"
        },
        {
            "port": 53,
            "proto": "tcp",
            "status": "closed",
            "service": "domain"
        },
        {
            "port": 80,
            "proto": "tcp",
            "status": "open",
            "service": "http"
        },
        {
            "port": 110,
            "proto": "tcp",
            "status": "closed",
            "service": "pop3"
        },
        {
            "port": 111,
            "proto": "tcp",
            "status": "closed",
            "service": "rpcbind"
        },
        {
            "port": 135,
            "proto": "tcp",
            "status": "closed",
            "service": "msrpc"
        },
        {
            "port": 139,
            "proto": "tcp",
            "status": "closed",
            "service": "netbios-ssn"
        },
        {
            "port": 143,
            "proto": "tcp",
            "status": "closed",
            "service": "imap"
        },
        {
            "port": 443,
            "proto": "tcp",
            "status": "open",
            "service": "https"
        },
        {
            "port": 445,
            "proto": "tcp",
            "status": "closed",
            "service": "microsoft-ds"
        },
        {
            "port": 993,
            "proto": "tcp",
            "status": "closed",
            "service": "imaps"
        },
        {
            "port": 995,
            "proto": "tcp",
            "status": "closed",
            "service": "pop3s"
        },
        {
            "port": 1723,
            "proto": "tcp",
            "status": "closed",
            "service": "pptp"
        },
        {
            "port": 3306,
            "proto": "tcp",
            "status": "closed",
            "service": "mysql"
        },
        {
            "port": 3389,
            "proto": "tcp",
            "status": "closed",
            "service": "ms-wbt-server"
        },
        {
            "port": 5900,
            "proto": "tcp",
            "status": "closed",
            "service": "vnc"
        },
        {
            "port": 8080,
            "proto": "tcp",
            "status": "closed",
            "service": "http-proxy"
        }
    ],
    "elapsed_ms": 185
}

Easily identify open ports on your IP addresses with this API

Businesses and sysadmins use this Port Scan API to detect open ports on any IP addresses. Useful to audit server exposure and integrate port scanning into automated vulnerability assessment workflows.

Scan Top 20 & 100 Ports

By default, our API scans the top 20 ports, e.g 21 (FTP), 22 (SSH), 23 (Telnet), 80 (HTTP), 443 (HTTPS).

Scan Custom Ports

You can specify custom ports to be scanned (comma separated), such as 21,22,23,25,80,110,443.

Detailed Report

View the number of open ports as well as which specific ports are open or closed and the service name.

Fast Response

The submitted IP is scanned in real-time and the response is returned in 1-3 seconds on average.

Take a look at some real-world use cases of this API service

Our API can be used in many ways, from cybersecurity tasks to research-specific tasks. Here we showcase the most popular use cases according to our customers usage:

Vulnerability Assessment

Scan for exposed ports as part of automated security checks in vulnerability management workflows.

Audit Server Exposure

Quickly audit external-facing servers to identify which TCP ports are open to the Internet.

Port Scan Integration

Integrate fast and reliable port scanning into your security tools or internal auditing systems.

Firewall Testing

Verify if firewall rules are correctly configured to block or allow access to specific TCP ports.

$ip = '1.2.3.4'; $apiUrl = 'https://api.apivoid.com/v2/port-scan'; $apiKey = 'your_api_key_here'; $ch = curl_init($apiUrl); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ['Content-Type: application/json', 'X-API-Key: ' . $apiKey]); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode(['ip' => $ip])); $response = curl_exec($ch); $httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE); curl_close($ch); if ($httpCode === 200) { $responseData = json_decode($response, true); print_r($responseData); }