tld 0.2

Extracts the top level domain (TLD) from the URL given.

Description

Extracts the top level domain (TLD) from the URL given. List of TLD names is taken from Mozilla http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/netwerk/dns/src/effective_tld_names.dat?raw=1

Optionally raises exceptions on non-existing TLDs or silently fails (if fail_silently argument is set to True). Knows about active and inactive TLDs. If only active TLDs shall be matched against, active_only argument shall be set to True (default - False).

License

MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1

Installation

Latest stable version on PyPI:

$ pip install tld

Latest development version:

$ pip install -e hg+http://bitbucket.org/barseghyanartur/tld#egg=tld

Usage example

To get the top level domain name from the URL given:

>>> from tld import get_tld
>>> print get_tld("http://www.google.co.uk")
'google.co.uk'
>>> print get_tld("http://www.google.idontexist", fail_silently=True)
None

To update/sync the tld names with the most recent version run the following from your terminal:

$ ./tld/update.py

or simply do:

>>> from tld.utils import update_tld_names
>>> update_tld_names()

Author

Artur Barseghyan <[e-mail]>