whois

A Python package for retrieving WHOIS information of domains.

Features

• Python wrapper for Linux "whois" command.
• Simple interface to access parsed WHOIS data for a given domain.
• Able to extract data for all the popular TLDs (com, org, net, biz, info, pl, jp, uk, nz, ...).
• Query a WHOIS server directly instead of going through an intermediate web service like many others do.
• Works with Python 3.x.
• All dates as datetime objects.
• Possibility to cache results.
• Verbose output on stderr during debugging to see how the internal functions are doing their work
• raise a exception on Quota ecceeded type responses
• raise a exception on PrivateRegistry tld's where we know the tld and know we don't know anything
• allow for optional cleaning the whois response before extracting information
• optionally allow IDN's to be translated to Punycode

Help Wanted

Your contributions are welcome, look for the Help wanted tag https://github.com/DannyCork/python-whois/labels/help%20wanted

Usage example

Install whois package from your distribution (e.g apt install whois)

$pip install whois

>>> import whois
>>> domain = whois.query('google.com')

>>> print(domain.__dict__)
{
	'expiration_date': datetime.datetime(2020, 9, 14, 0, 0),
	'last_updated': datetime.datetime(2011, 7, 20, 0, 0),
	'registrar': 'MARKMONITOR INC.',
	'name': 'google.com',
	'creation_date': datetime.datetime(1997, 9, 15, 0, 0)
}

>>> print(domain.name)
google.com

>>> print(domain.expiration_date)
2020-09-14 00:00:00

ccTLD & TLD support

see the file: ./whois/tld_regexpr.py or call whois.validTlds()

Issues

Raise an issue https://github.com/DannyCork/python-whois/issues/new

Changes:

2022-06-09: maarten_boot:

• the returned list of name_servers is now a sorted unique list and not a set
• the help function whois.validTlds() now outputs the true tld with dots

2022-09-27: maarten_boot

• add test2.py to replace test.py
• ./test2.py -h will show the possible usage
• all tests from the original program are now files in the ./tests directory
• test can be done on all supported tld's with -a or --all and limitest by regex with -r or --reg=

2022-11-04: maarten_boot

• add support for Iana example.com, example.net

2022-11-07: maarten_boot

• add testing against static known data in dir: ./testdata//output
• test.sh will test all domains in testdata without actually calling whois, the input data is instead read from testdata//input

2022-11-11: maarten_boot

• add support for returning the raw data from the whois command: flag include_raw_whois_text
• add support for handling unsupported domains via whois raw text only: flag return_raw_text_for_unsupported_tld

Support

• Python 3.x is supported.
• Python 2.x IS NOT supported.