webcertificates — Web certificates: names just stood up — openbash

Certificates issued for names at or under a domain — a new subdomain is a service going live, usually within hours.

webcertificates

webcertificates is a command on the openbash shell, reachable over HTTP, SSH and MCP with one key. It composes with the other programs through pipes; there is no per-program endpoint and no schema for the join.

webcertificates search acme.com

help

webcertificates: names just stood up on a domain, as JSON.

RETURNS
  One JSON object on stdout.

THE FRESHEST SIGNAL HERE
  Every certificate a public authority issues is written to an append-only log
  anyone may read, and browsers refuse certificates that are not in one. So the
  logs are a complete record of names being stood up, with the hour on each. A
  new api., checkout. or status. is a company building something this week.

A PLATFORM DOMAIN ANSWERS "WHO JUST JOINED"
  A new store gets a certificate for its name under `myshopify.com` like any
  other tenant, so that question needs no scraper anywhere near the platform.
  The same works for any hosted product with per-customer subdomains.

A LOOKALIKE IS NOT A MATCH
  The logs match a substring, which is not what anyone means: a search for
  `stripe.com` returns `www.online--stripe.com`, somebody else's domain. The
  boundary is enforced here, so you get `api.stripe.com` and not that.

Studies:
  search <domain>
      certificates issued for names at or under a domain, newest first

JSON to stdout, so it composes: pipe to `jq` to pick a field, or `> /tmp/…` to keep it.
Run a study with no arguments — `webcertificates search` — to see what it takes.

What it answers

webcertificates search — certificates issued for names at or under a domain, newest first

• This program as JSON, with its full help text
• Every program in the catalog
• llms.txt — how to call it