WHOIS

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Python module/library for retrieving WHOIS information of domains.

By DDarko http://ddarko.org/

Features

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* 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, net, org, uk, pl, ru, рф, lv, jp, co_jp, de, at, eu, biz, info, online, center, support, name, us, co, me, be, nz, cz, it, fr, kg, vc, fm, tv, edu, ca, pw, bid, host, online, party, pro, review, site, space, top, website, win)

* query a WHOIS server directly instead of going through an intermediate web service like many others do

* works with Python 2.4+ and Python 3.x

* all dates as datetime objects

* possibility to cache results

Usage example

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>>> 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