Whois querying and parsing of domain registration information.
Project description
Goal
- Create a simple importable Python module which will produce parsed WHOIS data for a given domain.
- Able to extract data for all the popular TLDs (com, org, net, ...)
- Query a WHOIS server directly instead of going through an intermediate web service like many others do.
Example
>>> import whois
>>> w = whois.whois('example.com')
>>> w.expiration_date # dates converted to datetime object
datetime.datetime(2022, 8, 13, 4, 0)
>>> w.text # the content downloaded from whois server
u'\nDomain Name: EXAMPLE.COM
Registry Domain ID: 2336799_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
...'
>>> print(w) # print values of all found attributes
{
"creation_date": "1995-08-14 04:00:00",
"expiration_date": "2022-08-13 04:00:00",
"updated_date": "2021-08-14 07:01:44",
"domain_name": "EXAMPLE.COM",
"name_servers": [
"A.IANA-SERVERS.NET",
"B.IANA-SERVERS.NET"
],
...
Install
Install from pypi:
pip install python-whois
Or checkout latest version from repository:
git clone git@github.com:richardpenman/whois.git
pip install -r requirements.txt
Run test cases:
python -m pytest
Problems?
Pull requests are welcome!
Thanks to the many who have sent patches for additional TLDs. If you want to add or fix a TLD it's quite straightforward. See example domains in whois/parser.py
Basically each TLD has a similar format to the following:
class WhoisOrg(WhoisEntry):
"""Whois parser for .org domains
"""
regex = {
'domain_name': 'Domain Name: *(.+)',
'registrar': 'Registrar: *(.+)',
'whois_server': 'Whois Server: *(.+)',
...
}
def __init__(self, domain, text):
if text.strip() == 'NOT FOUND':
raise PywhoisError(text)
else:
WhoisEntry.__init__(self, domain, text)
