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'WEBSCRAPING.COM@domainsbyproxy.com', u'WEBSCRAPING.COM@domainsbyproxy.com']
expiration_date: 2013-06-26 00:00:00
...

Install

Install from pypi:

$ pip install python-whois

Or checkout latest version from repository:

$ git clone git@github.com:richardpenman/pywhois.git

Note that then you will need to manually install the futures module, which allows supporting both Python 2 & 3:

$ pip install futures

Run test cases for python 2 & 3:

$ python -m unittest discover test
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Ran 13 tests in 0.812s

OK

$ python3 -m unittest discover test
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Ran 13 tests in 1.431s

OK

SOCKS Proxy support requirements:

$ pip install PySocks
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$ export SOCKS=socksproxy.someplace.com:8080

Problems?

Pull requests are welcome!

Thanks to the many who have sent patches for additional TLDs. If you want to add or fix a TLD it's quite straightforward. See example domains in whois/parser.py

Basically each TLD has a similar format to the following:

class WhoisOrg(WhoisEntry):
"""Whois parser for .org domains
"""
regex = {
    'domain_name':      'Domain Name: *(.+)',
    'registrar':        'Registrar: *(.+)',
    'whois_server':     'Whois Server: *(.+)',
    ...
}

def __init__(self, domain, text):
    if text.strip() == 'NOT FOUND':
        raise PywhoisError(text)
    else:
        WhoisEntry.__init__(self, domain, text)