python-whois 0.4

Whois querying and parsing of domain registration information.

Goal

• Create a simple importable Python module which will produce parsed WHOIS data for a given domain.
• Able to extract data for all the popular TLDs (com, org, net, …)
• Query a WHOIS server directly instead of going through an intermediate web service like many others do.
• Works with Python 2.4+ and no external dependencies

Example

>>> import whois
>>> w = whois.whois('webscraping.com')
>>> w.expiration_date  # dates converted to datetime object
datetime.datetime(2013, 6, 26, 0, 0)
>>> w.text  # the content downloaded from whois server
u'\nWhois Server Version 2.0\n\nDomain names in the .com and .net
...'

>>> print w  # print values of all found attributes
creation_date: 2004-06-26 00:00:00
domain_name: [u'WEBSCRAPING.COM', u'WEBSCRAPING.COM']
emails: [u'[e-mail]', u'[e-mail]']
expiration_date: 2013-06-26 00:00:00
...

Install

Install from pypi:

pip install python-whois

Or checkout latest version from repository:

hg clone https://bitbucket.org/richardpenman/pywhois

Contact

You can post ideas or patches here: https://bitbucket.org/richardpenman/pywhois/issues

Thanks to the many who have sent patches for additional domains!