python-whois 0.6.2

Whois querying and parsing of domain registration information.

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 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 2.0\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'[e-mail]', u'[e-mail]']
expiration_date: 2013-06-26 00:00:00
...

Install

Install from pypi:

pip install python-whois

Or checkout latest version from repository:

hg clone https://bitbucket.org/richardpenman/pywhois

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 - 2015-03-02:

• 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!