Whois Python lib
This project has been forked from the https://bitbucket.org/richardpenman/pywhois
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
>>> import ph4whois
>>> w = ph4whois.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 2.0\n\nDomain 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'WEBSCRAPING.COM@domainsbyproxy.com', u'WEBSCRAPING.COM@domainsbyproxy.com']
expiration_date: 2013-06-26 00:00:00
...
Install
Install from pypi:
pip install ph4-python-whois
Or checkout latest version from repository:
git clone https://github.com/ph4r05/python-whois.git
Original repo of the fork
Note that then you will need to manually install the futures module, which allows supporting both Python 2 & 3:
pip install futures
Changelog
0.6 - 2016-03-02:
- support added for python 3
- updated TLD list
0.5 - 2015-09-05:
- added native client, which now handles whois requests by default
- added pretty formatting to string representation
- return None instead of raising KeyError when an attribute does not exist
- new TLD's: .mobi, .io, .kg, .su, .biz
0.4 - 2015-08-13:
- new TLD's: .de, .nl, .ca, .be
- migrated to bitbucket
- added socket timeout
0.3 - 2015-03-31:
- improved datetime parsing with python-dateutil when available
- base WhoisEntry class inherits from dict
- fixed TLD's: .org, .info
Contact
You can post ideas or patches here: https://bitbucket.org/richardpenman/pywhois/issues
Thanks to the many who have sent patches for additional domains!