Overview
The client library for DNS Lookup API in Python language.
The minimum Python version is 3.6.
Installation
pip install dns-lookup-api
Examples
Full API documentation available here
Create a new client
from dnslookupapi import *
client = Client('Your API key')
Make basic requests
# Get DNS records for a domain name.
response = client.get('youtube.com')
print(response)
print(response.records_by_type['MX'])
# Get raw API response in XML format
raw_result = client.get_raw('bbc.com',
output_format=Client.XML_FORMAT)
Advanced usage
Extra request parameters
result = client.get(
'samsung.com',
'A,MX,NS')
Response model overview
Response:
- domain_name: [str]
- dns_types: str
- types: [int]
- dns_records: [DnsRecord]
- name: str
- type: int
- dns_type: str
- ttl: int
- value: str
- raw_text: str
- meta_description: str
- meta_title: str
- records_by_type: { 'dns_type' -> [DnsRecord] }
Sample response
{
'domain_name': 'youtube.com',
'types': '[-1]',
'dns_types': '_all',
'dns_records': [
{'type': '16', 'dns_type': 'TXT', 'name': 'youtube.com.', 'ttl': '3600',
'value': 'v=spf1 include:google.com mx -all',
'raw_text': 'youtube.com.\t\t3600\tIN\tTXT\t"v=spf1 include:google.com mx -all"'},
{'type': '16', 'dns_type': 'TXT', 'name': 'youtube.com.', 'ttl': '3600',
'value': 'google-site-verification=QtQWEwHWM8tHiJ4s-jJWzEQrD_fF3luPnpzNDH-Nw-w',
'raw_text': 'youtube.com.\t\t3600\tIN\tTXT\t"google-site-verification=QtQWEwHWM8tHiJ4s-jJWzEQrD_fF3luPnpzNDH-Nw-w"'},
{'type': '1', 'dns_type': 'A', 'name': 'youtube.com.', 'ttl': '300',
'value': '142.250.68.78',
'raw_text': 'youtube.com.\t\t300\tIN\tA\t142.250.68.78'},
{'type': '257', 'dns_type': 'CAA', 'name': 'youtube.com.', 'ttl': '21600',
'value': 'pki.goog',
'raw_text': 'youtube.com.\t\t21600\tIN\tCAA\t0 issue "pki.goog"',
'flags': '0', 'tag': 'issue'},
{'type': '2', 'dns_type': 'NS', 'name': 'youtube.com.', 'ttl': '21600',
'value': 'ns2.google.com.',
'raw_text': 'youtube.com.\t\t21600\tIN\tNS\tns2.google.com.'},
{'type': '2', 'dns_type': 'NS', 'name': 'youtube.com.', 'ttl': '21600',
'value': 'ns1.google.com.',
'raw_text': 'youtube.com.\t\t21600\tIN\tNS\tns1.google.com.'},
{'type': '6', 'dns_type': 'SOA', 'name': 'youtube.com.', 'ttl': '60',
'value': 'ns1.google.com.',
'raw_text': 'youtube.com.\t\t60\tIN\tSOA\tns1.google.com. dns-admin.google.com. 404480356 900 900 1800 60',
'admin': 'dns-admin.google.com.', 'host': 'ns1.google.com.',
'expire': '1800', 'minimum': '60', 'refresh': '900', 'retry': '900',
'serial': '404480356'},
{'type': '28', 'dns_type': 'AAAA', 'name': 'youtube.com.', 'ttl': '300',
'value': '2607:f8b0:4007:811:0:0:0:200e',
'raw_text': 'youtube.com.\t\t300\tIN\tAAAA\t2607:f8b0:4007:811:0:0:0:200e'},
{'type': '15', 'dns_type': 'MX', 'name': 'youtube.com.', 'ttl': '254',
'value': 'smtp.google.com.',
'raw_text': 'youtube.com.\t\t254\tIN\tMX\t0 smtp.google.com.',
'priority': '0', 'host': 'smtp.google.com.'}
]
'records_by_type':
{'TXT': [
{'type': '16', 'dns_type': 'TXT', 'name': 'youtube.com.', 'ttl': '3600',
'value': 'v=spf1 include:google.com mx -all',
'raw_text': 'youtube.com.\t\t3600\tIN\tTXT\t"v=spf1 include:google.com mx -all"'},
{'type': '16', 'dns_type': 'TXT', 'name': 'youtube.com.', 'ttl': '3600',
'value': 'google-site-verification=QtQWEwHWM8tHiJ4s-jJWzEQrD_fF3luPnpzNDH-Nw-w',
'raw_text': 'youtube.com.\t\t3600\tIN\tTXT\t"google-site-verification=QtQWEwHWM8tHiJ4s-jJWzEQrD_fF3luPnpzNDH-Nw-w"'}
],
'A': [
{'type': '1', 'dns_type': 'A', 'name': 'youtube.com.', 'ttl': '300',
'value': '142.250.68.78',
'raw_text': 'youtube.com.\t\t300\tIN\tA\t142.250.68.78'}
],
'CAA': [
{'type': '257', 'dns_type': 'CAA', 'name': 'youtube.com.', 'ttl': '21600',
'value': 'pki.goog',
'raw_text': 'youtube.com.\t\t21600\tIN\tCAA\t0 issue "pki.goog"',
'flags': '0', 'tag': 'issue'}
],
'NS': [
{'type': '2', 'dns_type': 'NS', 'name': 'youtube.com.', 'ttl': '21600',
'value': 'ns2.google.com.',
'raw_text': 'youtube.com.\t\t21600\tIN\tNS\tns2.google.com.'},
{'type': '2', 'dns_type': 'NS', 'name': 'youtube.com.', 'ttl': '21600',
'value': 'ns1.google.com.',
'raw_text': 'youtube.com.\t\t21600\tIN\tNS\tns1.google.com.'}
],
'SOA': [
{'type': '6', 'dns_type': 'SOA', 'name': 'youtube.com.', 'ttl': '60',
'value': 'ns1.google.com.',
'raw_text': 'youtube.com.\t\t60\tIN\tSOA\tns1.google.com. dns-admin.google.com. 404480356 900 900 1800 60',
'admin': 'dns-admin.google.com.', 'host': 'ns1.google.com.',
'expire': '1800', 'minimum': '60', 'refresh': '900',
'retry': '900', 'serial': '404480356'}
],
'AAAA': [
{'type': '28', 'dns_type': 'AAAA', 'name': 'youtube.com.', 'ttl': '300',
'value': '2607:f8b0:4007:811:0:0:0:200e',
'raw_text': 'youtube.com.\t\t300\tIN\tAAAA\t2607:f8b0:4007:811:0:0:0:200e'}
],
'MX': [
{'type': '15', 'dns_type': 'MX', 'name': 'youtube.com.', 'ttl': '254',
'value': 'smtp.google.com.',
'raw_text': 'youtube.com.\t\t254\tIN\tMX\t0 smtp.google.com.',
'priority': '0',
'host': 'smtp.google.com.'}
]
}
}
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