Python package for retrieving WHOIS information of domains.
Project description
whois
A Python package for retrieving WHOIS information of domains.
Features
Python wrapper for Linux “whois” command
simple interface to access parsed WHOIS data for a given domain
able to extract data for all the popular TLDs (com, org, net, biz, info, pl, jp, uk, nz, …)
query a WHOIS server directly instead of going through an intermediate web service like many others do
works with Python 2.4+ and Python 3.x
all dates as datetime objects
possibility to cache results
Help Wanted
You contributions are welcome , look for the Help wanted tag https://github.com/DannyCork/python-whois/labels/help%20wanted
Usage example
Install whois package from your distribution (e.g apt install whois)
$pip install whois
>>> import whois >>> domain = whois.query('google.com')
>>> print(domain.__dict__) { 'expiration_date': datetime.datetime(2020, 9, 14, 0, 0), 'last_updated': datetime.datetime(2011, 7, 20, 0, 0), 'registrar': 'MARKMONITOR INC.', 'name': 'google.com', 'creation_date': datetime.datetime(1997, 9, 15, 0, 0) }
>>> print(domain.name) google.com
>>> print(domain.expiration_date) 2020-09-14 00:00:00
ccTLD & TLD support
ccTLD - uz - at - be - br - co - co.jp - cz - de - eu - fr - it - jp - lv - nz - pl - ru - uk - us - mx - br - sh - id - tv - cc - nyc - pw
TLD - biz - com - info - me - name - net - org - io - xyz - tel - online - wiki - press - pharmacy - kr - cn
Issues
Raise an issue https://github.com/DannyCork/python-whois/issues/new
Support
Python 3.x supported. Should work on Python 2.x but not supported.
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