MAC vendor lookup
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Every connected device around the world comes with a unique Media Access Control address, or a MAC address.
A common task a network administrator may come across is being able to identify a network device's manufacturer when given only a MAC address.
- Task
Interface with one (or numerous) APIs that exist on the internet and retrieve the device manufacturer based on a supplied MAC address.
A MAC address that does not return a valid result should return the String "N/A". An error related to the network connectivity or the API should return a null result.
Many implementations on this page use http://api.macvendors.com/ which, as of 19th September 2021, is throttling requests. After only 2 calls, the following response is returned for all subsequent requests. If you are planning to use the same provider or going to run the examples on this page, consider building in a delay between two calls.
{"errors":{"detail":"Too Many Requests","message":"Please slow down your requests or upgrade your plan at https://macvendors.com"}}
Ada
with Ada.Text_IO;
with AWS.Client;
with AWS.Response;
with AWS.Messages;
procedure MAC_Vendor is
procedure Lookup (MAC : in String) is
use AWS.Response;
use AWS.Messages;
URL : constant String := "http://api.macvendors.com/" & MAC;
Page : constant Data := AWS.Client.Get (URL);
use Ada.Text_IO;
begin
Put (MAC);
Set_Col (20);
case AWS.Response.Status_Code (Page) is
when S200 => Put_Line (Message_Body (Page));
when S404 => Put_Line ("N/A");
when others => Put_Line ("Error");
end case;
end Lookup;
begin
-- Have to throttle traffic to site
Lookup ("88:53:2E:67:07:BE"); delay 1.500;
Lookup ("D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D"); delay 1.500;
Lookup ("FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21"); delay 1.500;
Lookup ("4c:72:b9:56:fe:bc"); delay 1.500;
Lookup ("00-14-22-01-23-45"); delay 1.500;
Lookup ("23-45-67"); delay 1.500;
Lookup ("foobar");
end MAC_Vendor;
- Output:
88:53:2E:67:07:BE Intel Corporate D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D Apple, Inc. FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21 Cisco Systems, Inc 4c:72:b9:56:fe:bc PEGATRON CORPORATION 00-14-22-01-23-45 Dell Inc. 23-45-67 N/A foobar N/A
APL
Normally something like this would just be mapping the lookup across an array, but that doesn't let us control the timing of the request dispatch. To insert a delay between requests we have to create a traditional function ("tradfn") with a for loop.
⍝load the library module
]load HttpCommand
⍝ define a direct function (dfn) to look up a single MAC address
vendorLookup1 ← { (HttpCommand.Get 'http://api.macvendors.com/',⍕⍵).Data }
⍝ define a traditional function to look up all the MAC addresses in a list with
⍝ a delay between calls
⍝ The header says that the function is named vendorLookup, it takes a single
⍝ parameter which we call macList, and the value of the local variable
⍝ vendors will become the function's return value
∇ vendors ← vendorLookup macList
⍝ look up the first vendor and put it into an array in our return var
vendors ← ⊆vendorLookup1 1↑macList
⍝ Loop over the rest of the array
:For burger :In 1↓macList
⎕DL 2 ⍝ wait 2 seconds
vendors ⍪← ⊆vendorLookup1 burger ⍝ then look up the next vendor and append
:EndFor
∇
⍝ demo data
macList ← '88:53:2E:67:07:BE' 'D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D' 'FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21'
macList ⍪← '4c:72:b9:56:fe:bc' '00-14-22-01-23-45'
⍝ look up the vendors (takes a while with the 2-second delay between lookups)
vendorList ← vendorLookup macList
⍝ the result is an array (a 1-row by N-column matrix). to print out one vendor
⍝ per line, we reshape it to be N rows by 1 column instead.
{(1⌷⍴⍵) 1 ⍴ ⍵} vendorList
- Output:
Intel Corporate Apple, Inc. Cisco Systems, Inc PEGATRON CORPORATION Dell Inc.
AppleScript
set apiRoot to "https://api.macvendors.com"
set macList to {"88:53:2E:67:07:BE", "D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D", ¬
"FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21", "4c:72:b9:56:fe:bc", "00-14-22-01-23-45"}
on lookupVendor(macAddr)
global apiRoot
return do shell script "curl " & apiRoot & "/" & macAddr
end lookupVendor
set table to { lookupVendor(first item of macList) }
repeat with burger in macList's items 2 thru -1
delay 1.5
set end of table to lookupVendor(burger)
end repeat
set text item delimiters to linefeed
return table as string
If this is part of a larger script you probably want to save and restore the text item delimiters:
set savedTID to text item delimiters
set text item delimiters to linefeed
set tableText to table as string
set text item delimiters to savedTID
return tableText
- Output:
Intel Corporate Apple, Inc. Cisco Systems, Inc PEGATRON CORPORATION Dell Inc.
Arturo
loop ["FC-A1-3E" "FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21" "BC:5F:F4"] 'mac [
print [mac "=>" read ~"http://api.macvendors.com/|mac|"]
pause 1500
]
- Output:
FC-A1-3E => Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21 => Cisco Systems, Inc BC:5F:F4 => ASRock Incorporation
AutoHotkey
macLookup(MAC){
WebRequest := ComObjCreate("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
WebRequest.Open("GET", "http://api.macvendors.com/" MAC)
WebRequest.Send()
return WebRequest.ResponseText
}
Examples:
MsgBox % macLookup("00-14-22-01-23-45")
Outputs:
Dell Inc.
BaCon
This code requires BaCon 3.8.2 or higher.
OPTION TLS TRUE
website$ = "api.macvendors.com"
mac$ = "b0:52:16:d0:3c:fb"
OPEN website$ & ":443" FOR NETWORK AS mynet
SEND "GET /" & mac$ & " HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: " & website$ & "\r\n\r\n" TO mynet
RECEIVE info$ FROM mynet
CLOSE NETWORK mynet
PRINT TOKEN$(info$, 2, "\r\n\r\n")
- Output:
Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.,Ltd.
BBC BASIC
DIM Block% 599 : REM Memory buffer to receive GET info
INSTALL @lib$ + "SOCKLIB" : PROC_initsockets
READ Mac$
WHILE Mac$ > ""
WAIT 100 : REM 1 sec pause to avoid 'Too Many Requests' errors
Socket=FN_tcpconnect("api.macvendors.com", "80")
I%=FN_writelinesocket(Socket, "GET /" + Mac$ + " HTTP/1.0")
I%=FN_writelinesocket(Socket, "")
REPEAT N%=FN_readsocket(Socket, Block%, 600) UNTIL N% > 0
PROC_closesocket(Socket)
PRINT Mac$ TAB(24);
CASE LEFT$($(Block% + 9), 3) OF
WHEN "200"
Block%?N%=0 : REM Add terminating 0x00
REPEAT N%-=1 UNTIL Block%?N% < 32 : REM Leave only last line
PRINT $$(Block% + N% + 1) : REM Print string from memory
WHEN "404"
PRINT "N/A"
OTHERWISE
PRINT "ERROR"
ENDCASE
READ Mac$
ENDWHILE
PROC_exitsockets
END
DATA 88:53:2E:67:07:BE, FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21, D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D, 10-11-22-33-44-55,
- Output:
88:53:2E:67:07:BE Intel Corporate FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21 Cisco Systems, Inc D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D Apple, Inc. 10-11-22-33-44-55 N/A
C
Takes MAC address as input, prints usage on incorrect invocation, requires libcurl
#include <curl/curl.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
/* Length of http://api.macvendors.com/ */
#define FIXED_LENGTH 16
struct MemoryStruct {
char *memory;
size_t size;
};
static size_t WriteMemoryCallback(void *contents, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userp)
{
size_t realsize = size * nmemb;
struct MemoryStruct *mem = (struct MemoryStruct *)userp;
mem->memory = realloc(mem->memory, mem->size + realsize + 1);
memcpy(&(mem->memory[mem->size]), contents, realsize);
mem->size += realsize;
mem->memory[mem->size] = 0;
return realsize;
}
void checkResponse(char* str){
char ref[] = "Vendor not found";
int len = strlen(str),flag = 1,i;
if(len<16)
fputs(str,stdout);
else{
for(i=0;i<len && i<16;i++)
flag = flag && (ref[i]==str[i]);
flag==1?fputs("N/A",stdout):fputs(str,stdout);
}
}
int main(int argC,char* argV[])
{
if(argC!=2)
printf("Usage : %s <MAC address>",argV[0]);
else{
CURL *curl;
int len = strlen(argV[1]);
char* str = (char*)malloc((FIXED_LENGTH + len)*sizeof(char));
struct MemoryStruct chunk;
CURLcode res;
chunk.memory = malloc(1);
chunk.size = 0;
if ((curl = curl_easy_init()) != NULL) {
sprintf(str,"http://api.macvendors.com/%s",argV[1]);
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, str);
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, WriteMemoryCallback);
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, (void *)&chunk);
free(str);
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
if (res == CURLE_OK) {
checkResponse(chunk.memory);
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
}
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
Invocation and output :
C:\rosettaCode>macLookUp 00-11-22-33-44-55-66 CIMSYS Inc C:\rosettaCode>macLookUp 10-11-22-33-44-55-66 N/A
C#
using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
class Program
{
static async Task<string> LookupMac(string MacAddress)
{
var uri = new Uri("http://api.macvendors.com/" + WebUtility.UrlEncode(MacAddress));
using (var wc = new HttpClient())
return await wc.GetStringAsync(uri);
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
foreach (var mac in new string[] { "88:53:2E:67:07:BE", "FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21", "D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D" })
Console.WriteLine(mac + "\t" + LookupMac(mac).Result);
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
- Output:
88:53:2E:67:07:BE Intel Corporate FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21 Cisco Systems, Inc D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D Apple, Inc.
C++
// This code is based on the example 'Simple HTTP Client' included with
// the Boost documentation.
#include <boost/beast/core.hpp>
#include <boost/beast/http.hpp>
#include <boost/beast/version.hpp>
#include <boost/asio/connect.hpp>
#include <boost/asio/ip/tcp.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
bool get_mac_vendor(const std::string& mac, std::string& vendor) {
namespace beast = boost::beast;
namespace http = beast::http;
namespace net = boost::asio;
using tcp = net::ip::tcp;
net::io_context ioc;
tcp::resolver resolver(ioc);
const char* host = "api.macvendors.com";
beast::tcp_stream stream(ioc);
stream.connect(resolver.resolve(host, "http"));
http::request<http::string_body> req{http::verb::get, "/" + mac, 10};
req.set(http::field::host, host);
req.set(http::field::user_agent, BOOST_BEAST_VERSION_STRING);
http::write(stream, req);
beast::flat_buffer buffer;
http::response<http::string_body> res;
http::read(stream, buffer, res);
bool success = res.result() == http::status::ok;
if (success)
vendor = res.body();
beast::error_code ec;
stream.socket().shutdown(tcp::socket::shutdown_both, ec);
if (ec && ec != beast::errc::not_connected)
throw beast::system_error{ec};
return success;
}
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
if (argc != 2 || strlen(argv[1]) == 0) {
std::cerr << "usage: " << argv[0] << " MAC-address\n";
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
try {
std::string vendor;
if (get_mac_vendor(argv[1], vendor)) {
std::cout << vendor << '\n';
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
} else {
std::cout << "N/A\n";
}
} catch(std::exception const& e) {
std::cerr << "Error: " << e.what() << std::endl;
}
return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
- Output:
% ./mac_vendor_lookup 0c:4d:e9:00:00:00 Apple, Inc.
Common Lisp
(quicklisp:quickload :Drakma) ; or load it in another way
(defun mac-vendor (mac)
(check-type mac string "A MAC address as a string")
(multiple-value-bind (vendor status)
(drakma:http-request (format nil "http://api.macvendors.com/~a" mac))
(if (= 200 status)
(format t "~%Vendor is ~a" vendor)
(error "~%Not a MAC address: ~a" mac))))
Delphi
program MAC_Vendor_Lookup;
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}
uses
System.SysUtils,
IdHttp;
function macLookUp(mac: string): string;
begin
Result := '';
with TIdHTTP.Create(nil) do
begin
try
Result := Get('http://api.macvendors.com/' + mac);
except
on E: Exception do
Writeln(e.Message);
end;
Free;
end;
end;
begin
Writeln(macLookUp('FC-A1-3E'));
sleep(1000);
Writeln(macLookUp('FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21'));
sleep(1000);
Writeln(macLookUp('BC:5F:F4'));
readln;
end.
- Output:
Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd Cisco Systems, Inc ASRock Incorporation
Factor
USING: accessors calendar continuations http.client io kernel
sequences threads ;
: mac-vendor ( str -- str )
"http://api.macvendors.com/" prepend
[ http-get nip ] [ nip response>> message>> ] recover ;
"FC-A1-3E"
"FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21"
"10-11-22-33-44-55-66"
[ mac-vendor print 1 seconds sleep ] tri@
- Output:
Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd Cisco Systems, Inc Not Found
FreeBASIC
Function pipeout(Byval s As String = "") Byref As String
Var f = Freefile
Dim As String tmp
Open Pipe s For Input As #f
s = ""
Do Until Eof(f)
Line Input #f, tmp
s &= tmp
Loop
Close #f
Return s
End Function
Function lookupvendor(webpage As String, mac As String) As String
Return pipeout("powershell " + "(Invoke-WebRequest " + webpage + mac + ")")
End Function
Dim As String macs(1 To 4) = {"FC-A1-3E","FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21","88:53:2E:67:07:BE","D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D"}
For i As Integer = 1 To Ubound(macs)
Var d = lookupvendor("api.macvendors.com/", macs(i))
Var e = Instr(d, "RawContent")
Print Mid(d, 66, e-66)
Next i
Sleep
- Output:
Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd Cisco Systems, Inc Intel Corporate Apple, Inc.
Free Pascal
program MACVendorLookup;
uses
fphttpclient;
var
res: String;
begin
if paramCount > 0 then begin
With TFPHttpClient.Create(Nil) do
try
allowRedirect := true;
try
res := Get('http://api.macvendors.com/' + ParamStr(1));
writeLn(res);
except
writeLn('N/A');
end;
finally
Free;
end;
end;
end.
- Output:
./MACVendorLookup 10-11-22-33-44-55-66 N/A ./MACVendorLookup 00-11-22-33-44-55-66 CIMSYS Inc
FutureBasic
local fn MACVendorLookup( vendor as CFStringRef ) as CFStringRef
CFStringRef cmd = fn StringWithFormat( @"curl -s \"https://api.macvendors.com/%@\" && echo", vendor )
return unix cmd
end fn = NULL
CFStringRef MACaddr
CFArrayRef vendors
vendors = @[@"88:53:2E:67:07:BE", @"D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D", @"FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21", @"4c:72:b9:56:fe:bc", @"00-14-22-01-23-45"]
for MACaddr in vendors
print fn StringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString( fn MACVendorLookup( MACaddr ), @"\n", @"" )
delay 1000 // Delay a second between each request to prevent api.macvendors.com server from rejecting query
next
HandleEvents
- Output:
Intel Corporate Apple, Inc. Cisco Systems, Inc PEGATRON CORPORATION Dell Inc.
Go
package main
import (
"net/http"
"fmt"
"io/ioutil"
)
func macLookUp(mac string) (res string){
resp, _ := http.Get("http://api.macvendors.com/" + mac)
body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
res = string(body)
return
}
func main() {
fmt.Println(macLookUp("FC-A1-3E"))
fmt.Println(macLookUp("FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21"))
fmt.Println(macLookUp("BC:5F:F4"))
}
- Output:
Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd Cisco Systems, Inc ASRock Incorporation
Haskell
#!/usr/bin/env stack
{- stack
script
--resolver lts-9.0
--package bytestring
--package http-client
--package http-types
-}
{-# LANGUAGE MultiWayIf #-}
import Control.Exception (try)
import Control.Monad (forM_)
import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8 as L8 (ByteString, unpack)
import Network.HTTP.Client
(Manager, parseRequest, httpLbs, responseStatus, responseBody,
newManager, defaultManagerSettings, Response, HttpException)
import Network.HTTP.Types.Status (statusIsSuccessful, notFound404)
import System.Environment (getArgs)
import Text.Printf (printf)
fetchURL :: Manager
-> String
-> IO (Either HttpException (Response L8.ByteString))
fetchURL mgr url = try $ do
req <- parseRequest url
httpLbs req mgr
lookupMac :: Manager -> String -> IO String
lookupMac mgr mac = do
eth <- fetchURL mgr $ "http://api.macvendors.com/" ++ mac
return $ case eth of
Left _ -> "null"
Right resp -> let body = responseBody resp
status = responseStatus resp
in if | status == notFound404 -> "N/A"
| not (statusIsSuccessful status) -> "null"
| otherwise -> L8.unpack body
main :: IO ()
main = do
args <- getArgs
mgr <- newManager defaultManagerSettings
forM_ args $ \mac -> do
putStr $ printf "%-17s" mac ++ " = "
vendor <- lookupMac mgr mac
putStrLn vendor
- Output:
$ ./RosettaMac.hs 00:15:ed:f0:00:00 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 88:53:2E:67:07:BE FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21 D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D banana 00:15:ed:f0:00:00 = Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc. ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff = N/A 88:53:2E:67:07:BE = Intel Corporate FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21 = Cisco Systems, Inc D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D = Apple, Inc. banana = N/A
J
Solution
require 'web/gethttp'
lookupMACvendor=: [: gethttp 'http://api.macvendors.com/'&,
Example Usage
addr=: '88:53:2E:67:07:BE';'FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21';'D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D';'23:45:67'
(,&' ' , lookupMACvendor)&> addr
88:53:2E:67:07:BE Intel Corporate
FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21 Cisco Systems, Inc
D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D Apple, Inc.
23:45:67 Vendor not found
Java
package com.jamesdonnell.MACVendor;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
/** MAC Vendor Lookup class.
* www.JamesDonnell.com
* @author James A. Donnell Jr. */
public class Lookup {
/** Base URL for API. The API from www.macvendors.com was chosen. */
private static final String baseURL = "http://api.macvendors.com/";
/** Performs lookup on MAC address(es) supplied in arguments.
* @param args MAC address(es) to lookup. */
public static void main(String[] args) {
for (String arguments : args)
System.out.println(arguments + ": " + get(arguments));
}
/** Performs lookup on supplied MAC address.
* @param macAddress MAC address to lookup.
* @return Manufacturer of MAC address. */
private static String get(String macAddress) {
try {
StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
URL url = new URL(baseURL + macAddress);
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
String line;
while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
result.append(line);
}
rd.close();
return result.toString();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
// MAC not found
return "N/A";
} catch (IOException e) {
// Error during lookup, either network or API.
return null;
}
}
}
Java 11
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
public final class MacVendorLookup {
public static void main(String[] aArgs) throws InterruptedException, IOException {
for ( String macAddress : macAddresses ) {
HttpResponse<String> response = getMacVendor(macAddress);
System.out.println(macAddress + " " + response.statusCode() + " " + response.body());
TimeUnit.SECONDS.sleep(2);
}
}
private static HttpResponse<String> getMacVendor(String aMacAddress) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
URI uri = URI.create(BASE_URL + aMacAddress);
HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
HttpRequest request = HttpRequest
.newBuilder()
.uri(uri)
.header("accept", "application/json")
.GET()
.build();
HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
return response;
}
private static final String BASE_URL = "http://api.macvendors.com/";
private static final List<String> macAddresses = List.of("88:53:2E:67:07:BE",
"D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D",
"FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21",
"4c:72:b9:56:fe:bc",
"00-14-22-01-23-45"
);
}
- Output:
88:53:2E:67:07:BE 200 Intel Corporate D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D 200 Apple, Inc. FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21 200 Cisco Systems, Inc 4c:72:b9:56:fe:bc 200 PEGATRON CORPORATION 00-14-22-01-23-45 200 Dell Inc.
JavaScript
var mac = "88:53:2E:67:07:BE";
function findmac(){
window.open("http://api.macvendors.com/" + mac);
}
findmac();
- Output:
Intel Corporate
Julia
import HTTP: get
function getvendor(addr::String)
try
String(get("http://api.macvendors.com/$addr").body)
catch e
"Vendor not found"
end
end
for addr in ["88:53:2E:67:07:BE", "FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21", "D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D", "23:45:67"]
println("$addr -> ", getvendor(addr))
sleep(0.5) # web site may error if requests are too close together
end
- Output:
88:53:2E:67:07:BE -> Intel Corporate FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21 -> Cisco Systems, Inc D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D -> Apple, Inc. 23:45:67 -> Vendor not found
Kotlin
// version 1.1.2
import java.net.URL
fun lookupVendor(mac: String) = URL("http://api.macvendors.com/" + mac).readText()
fun main(args: Array<String>) {
val macs = arrayOf("FC-A1-3E", "FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21", "88:53:2E:67:07:BE", "D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D")
for (mac in macs) println(lookupVendor(mac))
}
- Output:
Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd Cisco Systems, Inc Intel Corporate Apple, Inc.
Logo
make "api_root "http://api.macvendors.com/
make "mac_list [88:53:2E:67:07:BE D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21
4c:72:b9:56:fe:bc 00-14-22-01-23-45]
to lookup_vendor :mac
output first shell (sentence [curl -s] (word :api_root :mac) [&& echo])
end
print lookup_vendor first :mac_list
foreach butfirst :mac_list [
wait 90
print lookup_vendor ?
]
bye
bye
- Output:
Intel Corporate Apple, Inc. Cisco Systems, Inc PEGATRON CORPORATION Dell Inc.
Lua
-- Requires LuaSocket extension by Lua
-- Created by James A. Donnell Jr.
-- www.JamesDonnell.com
local baseURL = "http://api.macvendors.com/"
local function lookup(macAddress)
http = require "socket.http"
result, statuscode, content = http.request(baseURL .. macAddress)
return result
end
local macAddress = "FC-A1-3E-2A-1C-33"
print(lookup(macAddress))
M2000 Interpreter
Module Checkit {
httpGet$=lambda$ (url$, timeout=500)->{
declare htmldoc "WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1"
Method htmldoc "SetTimeouts", timeout, timeout, timeout, timeout
Method htmldoc "open","GET", url$, false
Method htmldoc "setRequestHeader","Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
Method htmldoc "send"
With htmldoc, "responseText" as ready$
res$=trim$(ready$)
if left$(res$,1)="{" then
="N/A"
else
=res$
end if
declare htmldoc nothing
}
Urls=("88:53:2E:67:07:BE", "FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21", "D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D", "BC:5F:F4")
url=each(URLs)
While Url {
Print Array$(URL),@(20), httpGet$("https://api.macvendors.com/"+Array$(URL))
Wait 1500
}
}
Checkit
Mathematica /Wolfram Language
macLookup[mac_String] := Quiet[Check[Import["http://api.macvendors.com/" <> mac], "N/A"]]
Examples:
macLookup["00-14-22-01-23-45"]
Outputs:
Dell Inc.
MiniScript
This implementation is for use with the Mini Micro version of MiniScript.
macList = ["88:53:2E:67:07:BE", "FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21", "00:02:55:00:00:00",
"D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D", "23:45:67", "18:93:D7", "1C:A6:81"]
for mac in macList
ret = http.get("http://api.macvendors.com/"+mac)
if ret == "HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found" then ret = "N/A"
print ret
wait 1
end for
- Output:
Intel Corporate Cisco Systems, Inc IBM Corp Apple, Inc. N/A Texas Instruments HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD
Nim
import httpclient
for mac in ["FC-A1-3E", "FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21", "BC:5F:F4"]:
echo newHttpClient().getContent("http://api.macvendors.com/"&mac)
- Output:
Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd Cisco Systems, Inc ASRock Incorporation
Nu
let mactable = http get "http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.csv" | from csv --no-infer
def get-mac-org [] {
let assignment = $in | str upcase | str replace --all --regex "[^A-Z0-9]" "" | str substring 0..6
$mactable | where Assignment == $assignment | try {first | get "Organization Name"} catch {"N/A"}
}
# Test cases from the Ada entry
let macs = [
# Should succeed
"88:53:2E:67:07:BE"
"D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D"
"FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21"
"4c:72:b9:56:fe:bc"
"00-14-22-01-23-45"
# Should fail
"23-45-67"
"foobar"
]
$macs | each {{MAC: $in, Vendor: ($in | get-mac-org)}}
- Output:
╭───┬───────────────────┬──────────────────────╮ │ # │ MAC │ Vendor │ ├───┼───────────────────┼──────────────────────┤ │ 0 │ 88:53:2E:67:07:BE │ Intel Corporate │ │ 1 │ D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D │ Apple, Inc. │ │ 2 │ FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21 │ Cisco Systems, Inc │ │ 3 │ 4c:72:b9:56:fe:bc │ PEGATRON CORPORATION │ │ 4 │ 00-14-22-01-23-45 │ Dell Inc. │ │ 5 │ 23-45-67 │ N/A │ │ 6 │ foobar │ N/A │ ╰───┴───────────────────┴──────────────────────╯
OCaml
(* build with ocamlfind ocamlopt -package netclient -linkpkg macaddr.ml -o macaddr *)
open Printf
open Nethttp_client.Convenience
open Unix
(* example vendors, including a nonsense one *)
let vendors = ["FF:FF:FF:67:07:BE"; "D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D"; "FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21"; "88:53:2E:67:07:BE"]
let get_vendor addr =
sleep 3; (* built-in delay to handle rate-limiting at macvendors.com *)
let client = http_get_message ("http://api.macvendors.com/" ^ addr) in
match client # response_status_code with
| 200 -> client # response_body # value
| 404 -> "N/A"
| _ -> "NULL"
let rec parse_vendors vendors =
match vendors with
| [] -> []
| hd::tl -> get_vendor hd :: parse_vendors tl
let rec print_vendors vendor_list =
match vendor_list with
| [] -> ""
| hd::tl -> printf "%s\n" hd; print_vendors tl
let main =
let vendor_list = parse_vendors vendors in
print_vendors vendor_list
- Output:
N/A Apple, Inc. Cisco Systems, Inc Intel Corporate
Perl
#!/usr/bin/env perl -T
use v5.18.2;
use warnings;
use LWP;
use Time::HiRes qw(sleep);
our $VERSION = 1.000_000;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
no warnings 'qw';
my @macs = qw(
FC-A1-3EFC:FB:FB:01:FA:21 00,0d,4b
Rhubarb 00-14-22-01-23-45
10:dd:b1 D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D
FC-A1-3E 88:53:2E:67:07:BE
23:45:67 FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21
BC:5F:F4
);
while (my $mac = shift @macs) {
my $vendor = get_mac_vendor($mac);
if ($vendor) {
say "$mac = $vendor";
}
sleep 1.5 if @macs;
}
sub get_mac_vendor {
my $s = shift;
my $req = HTTP::Request->new( GET => "http://api.macvendors.com/$s" );
my $res = $ua->request($req);
# A error related to the network connectivity or the API should
# return a null result.
if ( $res->is_error ) {
return;
}
# A MAC address that does not return a valid result should
# return the String "N/A".
if ( !$res->content
or $res->content eq 'Vendor not found' )
{
return 'N/A';
}
return $res->content;
}
# IEEE 802:
# Six groups of two hexadecimal digits separated by hyphens or colons,
# like 01-23-45-67-89-ab or 01:23:45:67:89:ab
# Three groups of four hexadecimal digits separated by dots (.),
# like 0123.4567.89ab
#sub validmac {
# my $s = shift;
#
# my $hex = qr{ [A-Fa-f[:digit:]] }xms;
# my $hex2ws = qr{ [-:] $hex{2} }xms;
#
# if ( $s =~ m{\A $hex{2} $hex2ws{5} \z}xms
# or $s =~ m{\A $hex{4} [.] $hex{4} [.] $hex{4} \z}xms )
# {
# return 'true';
# }
# return;
#}
- Output:
FC-A1-3EFC:FB:FB:01:FA:21 = Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd 00,0d,4b = Roku, Inc. 00-14-22-01-23-45 = Dell Inc. 10:dd:b1 = Apple, Inc. D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D = Apple, Inc. FC-A1-3E = Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd 88:53:2E:67:07:BE = Intel Corporate FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21 = Cisco Systems, Inc BC:5F:F4 = ASRock Incorporation
Phix
without js -- libcurl string test = "00-11-22-33-44-55-66" -- CIMSYS Inc --string test = "10-11-22-33-44-55-66" -- N/A include builtins/libcurl.e curl_global_init() atom curl = curl_easy_init() string url = sprintf("http://api.macvendors.com/%s",{test}) curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url) object res = curl_easy_perform_ex(curl) if string(res) then if res="Vendor not found" or res=`{"errors":{"detail":"Not Found"}}` then res = "N/A" end if ?res else ?{"error",res} end if curl_easy_cleanup(curl) curl_global_cleanup()
- Output:
CIMSYS Inc
PHP
<?php
$apiRoot = "https://api.macvendors.com";
$macList = array("88:53:2E:67:07:BE", "D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D",
"FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21", "4c:72:b9:56:fe:bc", "00-14-22-01-23-45");
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
foreach ($macList as $burger) {
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "$apiRoot/$burger");
echo(curl_exec($curl));
echo("\n");
sleep(2);
}
curl_close($curl);
?>
- Output:
Intel Corporate Apple, Inc. Cisco Systems, Inc PEGATRON CORPORATION Dell Inc.
PowerShell
$apiRoot = "http://api.macvendors.com"
$macAddresses = @("88:53:2E:67:07:BE", "D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D",
"FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21", "4c:72:b9:56:fe:bc",
"00-14-22-01-23-45")
$macAddresses | % {
(Invoke-WebRequest "$apiRoot/$_").Content
Start-Sleep 1.5
}
- Output:
Intel Corporate Apple, Inc. Cisco Systems, Inc PEGATRON CORPORATION Dell Inc.
Python
import requests
for addr in ['88:53:2E:67:07:BE', 'FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21',
'D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D', '23:45:67']:
vendor = requests.get('http://api.macvendors.com/' + addr).text
print(addr, vendor)
- Output:
88:53:2E:67:07:BE Intel Corporate FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21 Cisco Systems, Inc D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D Apple, Inc. 23:45:67 Vendor not found
Racket
#lang racket
(require net/url)
(define (lookup-MAC-address addr)
(port->string
(get-pure-port
(url "http" #f "api.macvendors.com" #f #t (list (path/param addr null)) null #f))))
(module+ test
(for ((i (in-list '("88:53:2E:67:07:BE"
"FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21"
"D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D"))))
(printf "~a\t~a~%" i (lookup-MAC-address i))))
- Output:
88:53:2E:67:07:BE Intel Corporate FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21 Cisco Systems, Inc D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D Apple, Inc.
Raku
(formerly Perl 6)
Apparently there is some rate limiting on place now, sleep a bit between requests.
use HTTP::UserAgent;
my $ua = HTTP::UserAgent.new;
$ua.timeout = 10; # seconds
my $server = 'http://api.macvendors.com/';
sub lookup ($mac) {
my $response = $ua.get: "$server+$mac";
sleep 1;
return $response.is-success ?? $response.content !! 'N/A';
CATCH { # Normally you would report some information about what
default { Nil } # went wrong, but the task specifies to ignore errors.
}
}
for <
BC:5F:F4
FC-A1-3E
10:dd:b1
00:0d:4b
23:45:67
> -> $mac { say lookup $mac }
- Output:
ASRock Incorporation Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd Apple, Inc. Roku, Inc. N/A
Red
print read rejoin [http://api.macvendors.com/ ask "MAC address: "]
- Output:
MAC address: 88:53:2E:67:07:BE Intel Corporate
REXX
This REXX version only works under Microsoft Windows and Regina REXX.
/*REXX pgm shows a network device's manufacturer based on the Media Access Control addr.*/
win_command = 'getmac' /*name of the Microsoft Windows command*/
win_command_options = '/v /fo list' /*options of " " " */
?3= 'Network Adapter:' /*search keywords for Network Adapter. */
?4= 'Physical Address:' /* " " " Physical Address.*/
upper ?3 ?4 /*uppercase in case for capitol letters*/
@.=; @.0= 0 /*just─in─case values for the keywords.*/
rc= 0 /* " " " value for the returnCode*/
address system win_command win_command_options with output stem @. /*issue command.*/
if rc\==0 then do /*display an error if not successful. */
say
say '***error*** from command: ' win_command win_command_options
say 'Return code was: ' rc
say
exit rc
end
MACaddr=. /*just─in─case value for the keyword. */
maker=. /* " " " " " " " */
do j=1 for @.0; $= @.j; upper $ /*parse each of the possible responses.*/
if left($, length(?3))=?3 then maker= subword(@.j, 3) /*is this the one?*/
if left($, length(?4))=?4 then MACaddr= word(@.j, 3) /* " " " " */
end /*k*/
/* [↑] Now, display good or bad stuff.*/
if maker=. | MACaddr==. then say 'MAC address manufacturer not found.'
else say 'manufacturer for MAC address ' MACaddr " is " maker
exit 0 /*stick a fork in it, we're all done. */
- output when using the default input:
manufacturer for MAC address 00-16-17-F9-C8-AA is Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet
Ring
# Project: MAC Vendor Lookup
load "stdlib.ring"
macs = ["FC-A1-3E","FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21","88:53:2E:67:07:BE","D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D"]
for mac = 1 to len(macs)
lookupvendor(macs[mac])
next
func lookupvendor(mac)
url = download("api.macvendors.com/" + mac)
see url + nl
Output:
Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd Cisco Systems, Inc Intel Corporate Apple, Inc.
Ruby
require 'net/http'
arr = ['88:53:2E:67:07:BE', 'FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21', 'D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D', '23:45:67']
arr.each do |addr|
vendor = Net::HTTP.get('api.macvendors.com', "/#{addr}/") rescue nil
puts "#{addr} #{vendor}"
end
- Output:
88:53:2E:67:07:BE Intel Corporate FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21 Cisco Systems, Inc D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D Apple, Inc. 23:45:67 Vendor not found
Rust
extern crate reqwest;
use std::{thread, time};
fn get_vendor(mac: &str) -> Option<String> {
let mut url = String::from("http://api.macvendors.com/");
url.push_str(mac);
let url_ref = &url;
match reqwest::get(url_ref) {
Ok(mut res) => match res.text() {
Ok(text) => {
if text.contains("Not Found") {
Some("N/A".to_string())
} else {
Some(text)
}
}
Err(e) => {
println!("{:?}", e);
None
}
},
Err(e) => {
println!("{:?}", e);
None
}
}
}
fn main() {
let duration = time::Duration::from_millis(1000);
match get_vendor("88:53:2E:67:07:BE") {
None => println!("Error!"),
Some(text) => println!("{}", text),
}
thread::sleep(duration);
match get_vendor("FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21") {
None => println!("Error!"),
Some(text) => println!("{}", text),
}
thread::sleep(duration);
match get_vendor("FC-A1-3E") {
None => println!("Error!"),
Some(text) => println!("{}", text),
}
thread::sleep(duration);
match get_vendor("abcdefg") {
None => println!("Error!"),
Some(text) => println!("{}", text),
}
}
Output:
Intel Corporate Cisco Systems, Inc Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd N/A
Scala
object LookUp extends App {
val macs = Seq("FC-A1-3E", "FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21", "88:53:2E:67:07:BE", "D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D")
def lookupVendor(mac: String) =
scala.io.Source.fromURL("""http://api.macvendors.com/""" + mac, "UTF-8").mkString
macs.foreach(mac => println(lookupVendor(mac)))
}
Scheme
(import http-client (chicken io))
(define api-root "http://api.macvendors.com")
(define mac-addresses '("88:53:2E:67:07:BE" "D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D"
"FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21" "4c:72:b9:56:fe:bc"
"00-14-22-01-23-45"))
(define get-vendor (lambda (mac-address)
(with-input-from-request (string-append api-root "/" mac-address)
#f read-string)))
(display (get-vendor (car mac-addresses)))
(newline)
(map (lambda (burger) (sleep 2) (display (get-vendor burger)) (newline))
(cdr mac-addresses))
- Output:
Intel Corporate Apple, Inc. Cisco Systems, Inc PEGATRON CORPORATION Dell Inc.
Tcl
package require http
# finally is a bit like go's defer
proc finally args {
tailcall trace add variable :#finally#: unset [list apply [list args $args]]
}
# basic wrapper for http::geturl
proc geturl {url} {
set tok [::http::geturl $url]
finally ::http::cleanup $tok
::http::data $tok
}
proc maclookup {mac} {
geturl http://api.macvendors.com/$mac
}
foreach mac {00-14-22-01-23-45 88:53:2E:67:07:BE} {
puts "$mac\t[maclookup $mac]"
}
- Output:
00-14-22-01-23-45 Dell Inc. 88:53:2E:67:07:BE Intel Corporate
UNIX Shell
Surprising that nobody had implemented the Bash / Shell version yet.
macList=(88:53:2E:67:07:BE D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21
4c:72:b9:56:fe:bc 00-14-22-01-23-45)
lookup() {
curl -s "http://api.macvendors.com/$1" && echo
}
lookup "${macList[0${ZSH_VERSION:++1}]}"
for burger in "${macList[@]:1}"; do
sleep 2
lookup "$burger"
done
It can be made to work in a pure-POSIX shell without array variables:
set -- 88:53:2E:67:07:BE D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21 \
4c:72:b9:56:fe:bc 00-14-22-01-23-45
lookup() {
curl -s "http://api.macvendors.com/$1" && echo
}
lookup "$1"
shift
for burger; do
sleep 2
curl -s "http://api.macvendors.com/$burger" && echo
done
And hey, just for completeness, let's toss in a [t]csh version:
set macList=(88:53:2E:67:07:BE D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21 \
4c:72:b9:56:fe:bc 00-14-22-01-23-45)
alias lookup curl -s "http://api.macvendors.com/!":1 "&&" echo
lookup "$macList[1]"
foreach burger ($macList[2-]:q)
sleep 2
lookup "$burger"
end
- Output:
All the above versions have identical output:
Intel Corporate Apple, Inc. Cisco Systems, Inc PEGATRON CORPORATION Dell Inc.
VBScript
a=array("00-20-6b-ba-d0-cb","00-40-ae-04-87-86")
set WebRequest = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
for each MAC in a
if b<>0 then wscript.echo "Spacing next request...": wscript.sleep 2000
WebRequest.Open "GET", "http://api.macvendors.com/"& mac,1
WebRequest.Send()
WebRequest.WaitForResponse
b=b+1
wscript.echo mac & " -> " & WebRequest.ResponseText
next
Output:
00-20-6b-ba-d0-cb -> KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC. Spacing next request... 00-40-ae-04-87-86 -> DELTA CONTROLS, INC.
Visual Basic .NET
Based on the C# sample but works with .Net versions prior to Framework 4.5.
Expects the address to be on the command line, if not specified, it defaults to 88:53:2E:67:07:BE.
' MAC Vendor lookup - based on the C# sample.
Imports System
Imports System.Net
Module LookupMac
Public Sub Main(args() As String)
Dim macAddress As String = If(args.Length < 1, "88:53:2E:67:07:BE", args(0))
Dim uri As New Uri("http://api.macvendors.com/" & WebUtility.UrlEncode(macAddress))
Dim wc As New WebClient()
Console.Out.WriteLine(macAddress & " " & wc.DownloadString(uri))
End Sub
End Module
- Output:
With no address on the command line:
88:53:2E:67:07:BE Intel Corporate
With FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21 on the command line:
FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21 Cisco Systems, Inc
V (Vlang)
import net.http
import time
const macs = ("
FC-A1-3E
FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21
xx:12:5
D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D
")
fn main() {
for line in macs.split_into_lines() {
if !line.is_blank() {
println(mac_lookup(line))
time.sleep(2 * time.second) // considerate delay between attempts
}
}
}
fn mac_lookup(mac string) string {
resp := http.get("http://api.macvendors.com/" + mac) or {return "No data from server"}
return resp.body.str()
}
- Output:
Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd Cisco Systems, Inc Apple, Inc.
Wren
Wren CLI doesn't currently expose a way to look up a MAC address.
However, if Wren is embedded in (say) a suitable Go program, then we can ask the latter to do it for us.
/* MAC_vendor_lookup.wren */
class MAC {
foreign static lookup(address)
}
System.print(MAC.lookup("FC:FB:FB:01:FA:21"))
for (i in 1..1e8) {} // slow down request
System.print(MAC.lookup("23:45:67"))
which we embed in the following Go program and run it.
/* MAC_vendor_lookup.go */
package main
import (
wren "github.com/crazyinfin8/WrenGo"
"io/ioutil"
"net/http"
)
type any = interface{}
func macLookup(vm *wren.VM, parameters []any) (any, error) {
mac := parameters[1].(string)
resp, err := http.Get("http://api.macvendors.com/" + mac)
if err != nil {
return nil, nil
}
body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
if err != nil {
return nil, nil
}
var vendor = string(body)
if vendor == `{"errors":{"detail":"Not Found"}}` {
return "N/A", nil
}
return vendor, nil
}
func main() {
vm := wren.NewVM()
fileName := "MAC_vendor_lookup.wren"
methodMap := wren.MethodMap{"static lookup(_)": macLookup}
classMap := wren.ClassMap{"MAC": wren.NewClass(nil, nil, methodMap)}
module := wren.NewModule(classMap)
vm.SetModule(fileName, module)
vm.InterpretFile(fileName)
vm.Free()
}
- Output:
Cisco Systems, Inc N/A
zkl
Uses libcurl (the multiprotocol file transfer library) to do the web query
var [const] CURL=Import("zklCurl"); // libcurl
const MAC_VENDORS="http://api.macvendors.com/";
fcn lookUp(macAddress){
httpAddr:=MAC_VENDORS + macAddress;
vender:=CURL().get(httpAddr); //-->(Data,bytes of header,bytes of trailer)
vender=vender[0].del(0,vender[1]); // remove HTTP header
vender.text; // Data --> String (Data is a byte bucket)
}
lookUp("FC-A1-3E-2A-1C-33").println();
lookUp("4c:72:b9:56:fe:bc").println();
lookUp("foobar").println();
- Output:
Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd PEGATRON CORPORATION Vendor not found
Zoea
program: mac_vendor_lookup
data: 'http://api.macvendors.com/'
input: 'D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D'
derive: 'http://api.macvendors.com/D4:F4:6F:C9:EF:8D'
output: 'Apple, Inc.'
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