whoisdomain 1.20230917.1

Python package for retrieving WHOIS information of domains.

whoisdomain

• A Python package for retrieving WHOIS information of DOMAIN'S ONLY.
• Python 2.x IS NOT supported.
• Currently no additional python packages need to be installed.

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Notes

• This package will not support querying ip CIDR ranges or AS information
• This was a copy of the original DanyCork 'whois'.
  • Significantly refactored in 2023.
  • The output is still compatible with DanyCork 'whois'

Versioning

• I will start versioning at 1.x.x
  • the second item will be YYYYMMDD,
  • the third item will start from 1 and be only used if more than one update will have to be done in one day.

Versions 1.x.x will keep the output compatible with Danny Cork until 2024-02-03 (February 2024)

Releases

• Releases are avalable at: Pypi

Pypi releases can be installed with:

• pip install whoisdomain

Features

• See: Features

Dependencies

• please install also the command line "whois" of your distribution as this library parses the output of the "whois" cli command of your operating system

Notes for Mac users

• it has been observed that the default cli whois on Mac is showing each forward step in its output, this makes parsing the result very unreliable.
• using a brew install whois will give in general better results.

Docker release

• See Docker

Usage example

• See Usage

whoisdomain

• the cli whoisdomain is documented in whoisdomain-cli

ccTLD & TLD support

Most tld's are now autodetected via IANA root db, see the Analizer directory and make suggest.

• see the file: tld_regexpr
• for python use: whoisdomain.validTlds()
• for cli use whoisdomain -S

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Support

• Python 3.x is supported for x >= 9
• Python 2.x IS NOT supported.

Author's

• See: Authors

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Updates

• see Updates for a full history of changes.
• Only the latest update is mentioned here

1.20230906.1

• introduce parsing based on functions
• allow contextual search in splitted data and plain data
• allow contextual search based on earlier result
• fix a few tld to return the proper registrant string (not nic handle)

1.20230913.1

• if you have installed tld (pip install tld) you can enable withPublicSuffix=True to process untill you reach the pseudo tld.
• the public_suffix info is added if available (and if requested)
• example case is: ./test2.py -d www.dublin.airport.aero --withPublicSuffix

1.20230913.3

• fix re.NOFLAGS, it is not compatible with 3.9, it appears in 3.11

1.20230917.1

• prepare work on pylint
• switch to logging: all verbose is currently log.debug(); to show set LOGLEVEL=DEBUG before calling, see Makefile: make test
• experimental: add extractServers: bool default False; when true we will try to extract the "redirect info chain" on rcf1036/whois and jwhois for linux/darwin
• add missing option to query(), test in production environment done

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in progress