Site Sniffer in Python 🐽

Site Sniffer is a Python package designed to extract information about a website by providing its URL. It is useful for individuals who need to perform website analysis, including web developers, SEO specialists, and website owners. The package extracts various details such as the IP address, HTTP status code, SSL certificate information, domain registration details, load time, meta description, keywords, and a list of links on the page.

Installation

Install sitesniffer with pip:

pip install sitesniffer

Alternatively:

pip install git+https://github.com/thisisjsimon/SiteSniffer.git

Usage

Make sure that you have installed Python 3.10 or higher before proceeding.

To use SiteSniffer, you need to import it first:

from sitesniffer import SiteSniffer

Then, create an instance of the SiteSniffer class by providing the URL of the website you want to analyze:

sniffer = SiteSniffer('https://example.com')

You can then call the methods of the SiteSniffer object to get various details about the website:

print(sniffer.ip_address())
print(sniffer.domain_info())
print(sniffer.status_code())
# See docs for full list

Each of the methods in this package returns the corresponding detail of the website. For example, ip_address() returns the IP address of the website.

Example

from sitesniffer import SiteSniffer

sniffer = SiteSniffer('https://google.com')
print(sniffer.ip_address())

Output

'142.250.185.110'

Essential Python Libraries for Web Scraping and HTTP Requests

The following Python libraries are essential for working with the sitesniffer package:

# standard library
import re
import socket
import ssl
import time
import typing
import urllib.parse
import dataclasses

# third party
import beautifulsoup4
import idna
import requests
import python-whois

Docs

The defined functions included in SiteSniffer