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Setting your API keys

Modified on: Mon, 22 Sep, 2025 at 5:57 PM

Introduction

The MST Server comes with several Transforms which require you to enter your own API key/s or credentials in order to have those Transforms run. The following API keys would be required.

 

API Keys can be set when running a Transform in the Maltego Desktop Client or centrally in a shared file api_keys.json as follows:


{
    "ibm_watson_api_key": "<replace-me>",
    "ibm_watson_api_url": "<replace-me>",
    "builtwith_api_key": "<replace-me>",
    "whoisxml_api_key": "<replace-me>",
    "ipqs_api_key": "<replace-me>",
    "securitytrails_api_key": "<replace-me>",
    "opencnam_api_key": "<replace-me>",
    "opencnam_sid": "<replace-me>",
    "brave_api_key": "<replace-me>",
    "google_search_engine_api_key": "<replace-me>",
    "google_search_engine_id": "<replace-me>"
}


Additional details for each integration and how to get a key are provided below. 

 

1. Brave Search API

Signup for a Brave Search API key here.


2. Google Custom search API

Signup for a Google Custom Search API key here.


3. IBM Watson Transforms

Several CTAS Transforms use the IBM Natural Language Understanding API to extract Entities from text and analyze sentiments of sentence(s). Enter your API Key in order to run Transforms based on IBM Natural Language Understanding API. 

 

Sign up for an IBM Watson API key here

IBM Watson Transform documentation can be found here in Maltego's Legacy Transform set.

                              

4. Maltego BuiltWith Transforms

Sign up for a BuiltWith API key here

Maltego BuiltWith Transform documentation can be found here

 

5. WhoisXml IP Netblocks Transforms 

Signup for a WhoisXML API Key here.

Maltego WhoisXML documentation can be found here.

 

6. IP Quality Score (IPQS) Transforms 

Signup for a IPQS API Key here.

Maltego IPQS documentation can be found here.

 

7. Security Trails Transforms

Signup for a Security Trails API Key here.

Maltego Security Trails documentation can be found here.


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