whotfis-py 0.0.7

Simple package to interact with the whois command line tool

Avaiability

Platform	Status
MacOS	Supported ✅
Linux	In Progress 🚧
Windows	Not supported yet ❌

Installation

To install the package, just run the following command:

pip install whotfis-py

Usage

import whotfis_py
result = whotfis_py.lookup("QUERY", registry)

The package has different classes for different registers on which will the whois lookup be performed, so when executing the query is possible to specify the database MACRO

import whotfis_py
from whotfis_py import registries

whotfis_py.lookup("QUERY", registries.RADB)

From the available registers the program supports:

• ARPIN
• APNIC
• ABUSE
• AFRINIC
• USMILITARY
• INTERNIC
• IANA
• KRNIC
• LACNIC
• RIPE
• RADB

If you want to specify a custom register you also need to provide the server name for that register

whotfis_py.lookup("QUERY", registries.CUSTOM, "whois.radb.net")

Results

The lookup() function will return a class depending on the registry you passed, all the classes are specified in the file whois_py/result.py, if you want to list all the possible values at runtime you can use the dir()method on the object

result = whotfis_py.lookup("QUERY", registries.RADB)
attributes = dir(result)

All the classes inherit from the whois_result super class, which provide the dict() method to convert all the instances of the class to dictionary

result = whotfis_py.lookup("QUERY", registries.RADB)
print(result.dict())

Since the CUSTOM registry output is unknown the parameters will be setted at runtime during the lookup, the accepted parameters are only in the key:value shape.

In case of duplicate keys in the output there are two policies, a list of appendable keys is provided for each class in the whois_result class, if the key is not in the list the value will be overwritten, otherwise the value will be appended to the others.