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IP Whois Resolution and Parsing

Project description

ipwhois is a simple package for retrieving and parsing whois data for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

The various NICs are pretty inconsistent with formatting Whois results and the information contained within. I am still working through how to parse some of these fields in to standard dictionary keys.

This version requires Python 3.3+ (for the ipaddress library) and dnspython3.

Usage Examples

Typical usage:

>>>> from ipwhois import IPWhois
>>>> from pprint import pprint

>>>> obj = IPWhois('74.125.225.229')
>>>> results = obj.lookup()
>>>> pprint(results)

{
'asn': '15169',
'asn_cidr': '74.125.225.0/24',
'asn_country_code': 'US',
'asn_date': '2007-03-13',
'asn_registry': 'arin',
'nets': [{'abuse_emails': 'arin-contact@google.com',
          'address': '1600 Amphitheatre Parkway',
          'cidr': '74.125.0.0/16',
          'city': 'Mountain View',
          'country': 'US',
          'description': 'Google Inc.',
          'misc_emails': None,
          'name': 'GOOGLE',
          'postal_code': '94043',
          'state': 'CA',
          'tech_emails': 'arin-contact@google.com'}],
'query': '74.125.225.229',
'raw': None
}

REST (HTTP):

>>>> from ipwhois import IPWhois
>>>> from pprint import pprint

>>>> obj = IPWhois('74.125.225.229')
>>>> results = obj.lookup_rws()
>>>> pprint(results)

{
'asn': '15169',
'asn_cidr': '74.125.225.0/24',
'asn_country_code': 'US',
'asn_date': '2007-03-13',
'asn_registry': 'arin',
'nets': [{'abuse_emails': 'arin-contact@google.com',
          'address': '1600 Amphitheatre Parkway',
          'cidr': '74.125.0.0/16',
          'city': 'Mountain View',
          'country': 'US',
          'description': 'Google Inc.',
          'misc_emails': None,
          'name': 'GOOGLE',
          'postal_code': '94043',
          'state': 'CA',
          'tech_emails': 'arin-contact@google.com'}],
'query': '74.125.225.229',
'raw': None
}

Proxy:

>>>> from urllib import request
>>>> from ipwhois import IPWhois
>>>> handler = request.ProxyHandler({'http': 'http://192.168.0.1:80/'})
>>>> opener = request.build_opener(handler)
>>>> obj = IPWhois('74.125.225.229', proxy_opener = opener)

Hostname:

>>>> from ipwhois import IPWhois
>>>> from pprint import pprint

>>>> obj = IPWhois('74.125.225.229')
>>>> results = obj.get_host()
>>>> pprint(results)

('dfw06s26-in-f5.1e100.net', [], ['74.125.225.229'])

Countries:

>>>> from ipwhois import IPWhois
>>>> from ipwhois.utils import get_countries

>>>> countries = get_countries()
>>>> obj = IPWhois('74.125.225.229')
>>>> results = obj.lookup(False)
>>>> print(countries[results['nets'][0]['country']])

United States

Installing

Latest version from PyPi:

pip install ipwhois

Latest version from GitHub:

pip install -e git+https://github.com/secynic/ipwhois@master#egg=ipwhois

Parsing

Parsing is currently limited to CIDR, country, name, description, state, city, address, postal_code, abuse_emails, tech_emails, and misc_emails fields. This is assuming that those fields are present.

Some IPs have parent networks listed. The parser attempts to recognize this, and break the networks into individual dictionaries. If a single network has multiple CIDRs, they will be separated by ‘, ‘.

Sometimes, you will see whois information with multiple consecutive same name fields, e.g., Description: some text\nDescription: more text. The parser will recognize this and the returned result will have these separated by ‘\n’.

REST (HTTP)

IPWhois.lookup_rws() should be faster than IPWhois.lookup(), but may not be as reliable. APNIC, LACNIC, and AFRINIC do not have a Whois-RWS service yet. We have to rely on the Ripe RWS service, which does not contain all of the data we need.

Changelog

0.2.1 (2013-09-27)

  • Fixed LACNIC CIDR validation on IPWhois.lookup().

  • Fixed bug in IPWhois.get_whois() for query rate limiting. This was discovered via testing multiprocessing with 8+ processes running asynchronously.

0.2.0 (2013-09-23)

  • Added support for emails (keys: abuse_emails, tech_emails, misc_emails).

  • Changed regex to use group naming for more complex searching.

  • Added some missing exception handling in lookup_rws().

0.1.9 (2013-09-18)

  • Added exceptions to import in __init__.py.

  • Added IPWhois.__repr__().

  • Moved exceptions to get_*() functions.

  • Added exception HostLookupError.

  • Various optimizations.

  • Added some unit tests.

0.1.8 (2013-09-17)

  • Removed set_proxy() in favor of having the user provide their own urllib.request.OpenerDirector instance as a parameter to IPWhois().

  • Restructured package in favor of modularity. get_countries() is now located in ipwhois.utils.

  • Added exception WhoisLookupError for IPWhois.lookup() and IPWhois.lookup_rws().

0.1.7 (2013-09-16)

  • Fixed bug in set_proxy().

  • Removed ARIN top level network entries from return dictionary of IPWhois.lookup_rws().

  • Fixed bug in ARIN RWS parsing when only one network.

0.1.6 (2013-09-16)

  • Added IPWhois.get_host() to resolve hostname information.

  • Added address and postal_code fields to parsed results.

  • Normalized single/double quote use.

0.1.5 (2013-09-13)

  • Added set_proxy() function for proxy support in Whois-RWS queries.

  • Added IPWhois.lookup_rws() function for Whois-RWS queries.

0.1.4 (2013-09-12)

  • Added validity checks for the asn_registry value due to a bug in the Team Cymru ASN lookup over night.

  • Added timeout argument to IPWhois(). This is the default timeout in seconds for socket connections.

  • Fixed decoding issue in IPWhois.get_whois().

0.1.3 (2013-09-11)

  • Added exception handling with query retry support for socket errors, timeouts, connection resets.

  • Moved ASN queries to their own functions (IPWhois.get_asn_dns() and IPWhois.get_asn_whois())

  • Moved whois query to its own function (IPWhois.get_whois())

  • Country codes are now forced as upper case in the return dictionary.

0.1.2 (2013-09-10)

  • Fixed file path for get_countries().

  • Fixed variable names that conflicted with builtins.

  • Added content to README.

  • Moved CHANGES.txt to CHANGES.rst and added to setup.py.

  • Download URL now points to GitHub master tarball.

0.1.1 (2013-09-09)

  • Fixed README issue.

0.1.0 (2013-09-06)

  • Initial release.

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