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hackertarget-mcp
Advanced tools
hackertarget-mcp
Query HackerTarget's free recon APIs (keyless): DNS lookup, reverse DNS, whois, geoIP, HTTP headers, reverse IP. Rate-limited free tier; be polite.
Tools
dns_lookup— A/AAAA/MX/NS records for a domain. Keyless.reverse_dns— PTR records for an IP address.whois_lookup— WHOIS record for a domain or IP.geoip_lookup— Country/region/city for IP or domain.http_headers— Response headers for a URL, with status code.reverse_ip— Domains and hostnames hosted on one IP address.
Source
Licence — no paywall
Every tool in this package is free: no licence key, no premium tier, no hosted licence gateway. The paywall machinery this repo once carried (per-tool licence checks and paid hosted endpoints) was removed repo-wide on 2026-10-17. Nothing that this package installs or calls asks you to pay.
FAQs
HackNotice HackerTarget recon: DNS, whois, geoIP, headers. Keyless.
The npm package hackertarget-mcp receives a total of 27 weekly downloads. As such, hackertarget-mcp popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that hackertarget-mcp demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 18 Oct 2026
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