onion-lookup v0.2 released with improvements and various fixes

🧅 onion-lookup v0.2 – Release Notes

Release date: 19 August 2025

onion-lookup v0.2 introduces new features, improvements in usability and documentation, as well as important fixes for URL handling, tagging, and API compliance.

Online version: https://onion.ail-project.org/

✨ New Features

• Query statistics: Added query statistics support to better monitor usage and lookup activity.
• Tooltips: New tooltips introduced in the interface for improved usability.

🔧 Changes & Improvements

• Tagging terminology update: Tagging remapped to align with the MISP taxonomies.
• OpenAPI specification:
  • Fixed compliance issues with OpenAPI spec.
  • Improved clarity in the OpenAPI documentation.
• Lookup improvements: Onion extraction from URLs refined, with requests certificate warnings disabled to reduce noise.
• UI enhancements: Tooltip behavior refined for better user experience.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• URL handling:
  • Fixed parsing when URLs have no prefix.
  • Fixed handling of partially URL-encoded strings (properly decoded back).
• App behavior: Ensure proper checks when tags are returned.
• OpenAPI: Multiple fixes for spec alignment and documentation consistency.

📌 Summary

This release makes onion-lookup more robust in handling URLs and taxonomies, aligns it better with OpenAPI standards, and introduces useful new features such as query statistics and tooltips.

First release of onion-lookup version 0.1 - https://onion.ail-project.org

We announce the release of onion-lookup v0.1. This powerful tool is designed to help you search for Tor hidden services - .onion services quickly and efficiently. With its sleek API and user-friendly online interface, onion-lookup simplifies the process of querying and exploring onion addresses without browsing Tor using an AIL instance.

Release version 0.1 includes the following functionalities:

• API Access: Easily integrate onion-lookup into your workflows with our fully unrestricted API.
• Onion Service Lookup: Effortlessly search for .onion domains across the Tor network.
• Online Access: Available without restriction via our website at https://onion.ail-project.org/.

Whether you are a researcher, investigator, or cybersecurity professional, Onion-Lookup v0.1 will enhance your ability to search for historical information and classification of existing Tor hidden services. The Tor services are automatically labeled with tags from infoleak or darkweb MISP taxonomies.

Check it out today and start exploring: onion-lookup v0.1 Release

Funding

MISP-LEA, a collaborative endeavor between Shadowserver and CIRCL, is a 24-month initiative funded by the European Union.