whois-api-llc / whois-api-py

Whois API client library for Python

Overview

The client library for Whois API in Python language.

The minimum Python version is 3.7.

Installation

pip install whois-api

Examples

Full API documentation available here

Create a new client

from whoisapi import *

client = Client(api_key='Your API key')

Make basic requests

# Get parsed whois record as a model instance.
whois = client.data('whoisxmlapi.com')
# Get particular field of the whois record
print(whois.created_date_raw)

# Get raw API response
resp_str = client.raw_data('whoisxmlapi.com')

Additional options

You can specify a custom parameters for particular request

params = RequestParameters(ignore_raw_texts=1, da=2)

whois = client.data('whoisxmlapi.com', params)
print(whois.domain_availability_raw)

# Also you can modify default values of parameters:
client.parameters.output_format = 'xml'
print(client.raw_data('whoisxmlapi.com'))