API /v1/search/entities/ changes to include all entities without filtering

[chrisproudley]

Previously, when performing API calls to capture entities (/v1/search/entities/), there were two filters which were always enabled with default values, shown in bold below:

hidden:false|true

scoped:true|false

This meant that building API queries to capture all or both required multiple lookups to capture all entities, and some way of concatenating the resultant data. If building an integration with a third-party product, for example, this added significant complexity.

Since late May 2024, we have added options to capture 'both' within a single API call (or search within the UI).

How these parameters look in a direct API request (without URI encoding): /v1/stats/entities/ips_by_network/last_seen_after:configured_scan_count scoped:both hidden:both

How these parameters look within the UI search:

We hope that these changes to the API will prove valuable and welcome feedback on their usefulness.