Descent098 / whois

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.
• Works with Python 2 & 3

Example

bash

>>> import whois >>> w = whois.whois('webscraping.com') >>> w.expiration_date # dates converted to datetime object datetime.datetime(2013, 6, 26, 0, 0) >>> w.text # the content downloaded from whois server u'nWhois Server Version 2.0nnDomain names in the .com and .net ...'

>>> print w # print values of all found attributes creation_date: 2004-06-26 00:00:00 domain_name: [u'WEBSCRAPING.COM', u'WEBSCRAPING.COM'] emails: [u'[e-mail]', u'[e-mail]'] expiration_date: 2013-06-26 00:00:00 ...

Install

Install from pypi:

bash

$ pip install python-whois

Or checkout latest version from repository:

bash

$ git clone [e-mail]:richardpenman/pywhois.git

Note that then you will need to manually install the futures module, which allows supporting both Python 2 & 3:

bash

$ pip install futures

Run test cases for python 2 & 3:

bash

$ python -m unittest discover test ............. ----------------------------------------------------------------------Ran 13 tests in 0.812s

OK

$ python3 -m unittest discover test ............. ----------------------------------------------------------------------Ran 13 tests in 1.431s

OK

SOCKS Proxy support requirements:

bash

$ pip install PySocks ............ ---------------------------------------------------------------------$ export SOCKS=socksproxy.someplace.com:8080

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:

python

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)