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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 - ac.uk - ar - at - be - br - ca - co - co.jp - com.au - cl - cn - cz - de - eu - fr - it - ir - jp - kr - lv - lt - mx - nz - pl - ru - uk - us - mx - br - sh - id - tv - cc - nyc - pw - рф (xn–p1ai) - in - ua - co.za - by

TLD - download - biz - edu - education - com - download - info - me - mobi - name - net - ninja - nyc - online - org - io - xyz - tel - online - wiki - press - pharmacy - rest - security - site - space - store - tech - tel - theatre - tickets - video - website - club - work - bank - ca - mu - rw

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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