PhishStats API
Overview
PhishStats is a real-time phishing URL database that aggregates phishing site data from multiple sources. You can use it to check whether a URL has been flagged as a phishing site or to download bulk phishing data for research. It's free to use and great for building security tools or browser extensions.
Beginner Tip
Use the /api/phishing.json endpoint with the ?url= parameter to check individual URLs, and check the score field — higher values indicate stronger phishing confidence.
Measurement Record
What actually happened when we called this API from our own infrastructure. Every value below was recorded by the request, not copied from the provider's documentation.
- Request
- GET https://api.phishstats.info/api/phishing?_sort=-id
- Result
- HTTP 200 · application/json · 43,145 bytes · compressed
- Response time
- 210 ms (median of 3) · fastest 206 ms
- Transport
- TLSv1.3 · TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 · certificate issued by Google Trust Services
- Browser CORS
- No Access-Control-Allow-Origin header — call it from a server, not the browser
- Rate limit
- 20/minute (19 remaining at test time)
- Served by
- cloudflare
- Recorded
- 2026-08-10
Fields Returned
Top-level fields present in the response we captured, with the type and value we actually received.
| Field | Type | Value received |
|---|---|---|
| id | integer | 11900910 |
| url | string (url) | https://vjump.shueisha.co.jp/ |
| redirect_url | string (url) | https://shkelou.com/?label=38d5d963ea7b76e6df… |
| ip | string | 43.253.48.158 |
| countrycode | string | JP |
| countryname | string | Japan |
| regioncode | null | null |
| regionname | null | null |
| city | null | null |
| zipcode | null | null |
| latitude | string | 35.6900 |
| longitude | string | 139.6900 |
| asn | string | AS17686 |
| bgp | string | 43.253.0.0/18 |
Captured Response
Captured from a real request to https://api.phishstats.info/api/phishing?_sort=-id on 2026-08-10. Long arrays and nested objects are truncated to keep the shape readable.
[
{
"id": 11900910,
"url": "https://vjump.shueisha.co.jp/",
"redirect_url": "https://shkelou.com/?label=38d5d963ea7b76e6df243da9ec4a9205",
"ip": "43.253.48.158",
"countrycode": "JP",
"countryname": "Japan",
"regioncode": null,
"regionname": null,
"city": null,
"zipcode": null,
"latitude": "35.6900",
"longitude": "139.6900",
"asn": "AS17686",
"bgp": "43.253.0.0/18",
"…": "(31 more fields)"
}
] Field Reference
id Unique identifier for this phishing record. url The full phishing URL that was reported. ip IP address hosting the phishing page. countrycode Two-letter country code where the phishing server is located. Implementation Example
Calls a real endpoint of this API. Replace any placeholder credentials with your own key.
const url = "https://phishstats.info:2096/api/phishing?_where=(url,like,~example~)&_size=5";
const response = await fetch(url);
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data); What Can You Build?
Note: These code examples are AI-generated and unverified. Always refer to the official API documentation for accurate usage.
How This API Fails
We deliberately sent this API a broken request and recorded exactly what came back on 2026-08-10. Knowing the shape of an error before you hit it makes error handling much easier to write.
{
"error": {
"code": "ER_BAD_FIELD_ERROR",
"errno": 1054,
"sqlMessage": "Unknown column 'NaN' in 'where clause'",
"sqlState": "42S22",
"index": 0,
"sql": "select * from `phishing` where id = NaN LIMIT 1"
}
} {
"error": {
"code": "ER_BAD_FIELD_ERROR",
"errno": 1054,
"sqlMessage": "Unknown column '!!!invalid!!!' in 'order clause'",
"sqlState": "42S22",
"index": 0,
"sql": "select * from `phishing` ORDER BY `!!!invalid!!!` ASC limit 0,20 "
}
} Common Errors & Troubleshooting
Generated guidance based on this API's documentation, not observed by us. Treat it as a starting point and check against the provider's own error reference.
Measured Score Breakdown
Live HTTP request to the API endpoint
Fully tested on Aug 10, 2026
Technical Specifications
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