A Python module written by Richard Penman to perform whois lookup.
Questions tagged [pywhois]
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pywhois on domains with multiple records
I'm trying to create a simple app that will allow me to run a whois, but I've hit a road block.
>>> w = pywhois.whois('google.com')
>>> print w
creation_date: []
domain_name: []
emails: []
...
I'm about 99% sure that I'm not getting any results…
user1607772
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a stable way to check domain availability with pywhois
I use this code to check domain availability:
try:
w = pywhois.whois('honarasai.com')
if not w:
message='Domain is available'
except:
message='Domain is taken'
It returns this result:
creation_date: ['11-jun-2012'] domain_name:…
Asma Gheisari
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What is the simplest way to execute WHOIS protocol with python?
Im looking for a library or a code module that is most reccomended for WHOIS protocol.
Note that i've been allready googling it , but i didnt found what i was looking for.
what i need is something like this :
WHOIS(ip)
and the output will be the…
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Why does pywhois return empty headers?
I am using pywhois module in Python to fetch the Whois headers for websites. While it runs fine for most of the websites, I am trying to understand why sites like google.com and few others come back with black headers. Does PyWhois work only with…
London guy
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Why am I getting 'TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'' when running my WHOIS script in the Linux terminal?
I am creating a basic "whois" script, but it is not working. When I try to run it in the Linux terminal, it returns the error:
"TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'" indicated in
the line of code:…
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Python WHOIS Bulk Look up for Domain Creation Date
Seeking for help as I would like to do a bulk whois lookup by reading a csv with domain names, and obtain the creation date of these domains and write it into a new csv.
import whois
infile = "domains.txt"
get domains from file
with open(infile,…
Sean
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AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'strftime'AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'strftime'
I get an error for "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'strftime'AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'strftime'". see full trace below:
ipython-input-96-a5697ab98b57> in
----> 1…
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how to use pywhois module in gae
I have problems when try to import pywhois module, i can import my own module but still have troubles when import pywhois. I moved the pywhois folder in my project folder domain, the screentshot is below:
This is the import and calling statment…
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Error ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'whois.whois'
I get this error saying
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'whois.whois' from https://pypi.org/project/python-whois/
https://pypi.org/project/whois/
I have installed all whois packages
import whois
domain =…
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Can't import whois in .py file, but can in shell
I have recently installed whois.
When I try to import the whois module in a .py file I get a ModuleNotFoundError. However, when I give the import command in a Python shell the problem does not occur, and the module imports as expected. Each time I…
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Bulk Whois lookup Of 20,000 domains - getting timeouts
Am trying to BULK extract WHOIS information for 20,000 domain names, the python code works with 2 items in my csv file but brings error with the whole dataset of 20000 domain names
tried with 2 domain names, OK. using a full list of 20k domain names…
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pywhois parsed results into mysql
sorry if you consider as repost, quite simple code and i suspect also a trivial error here, but can't move forward:
import whois
import MySQLdb
db = MySQLdb.connect(host="localhost", user="root", passwd="pass", db="whois")
cur = db.cursor()
wi =…
gejza
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Get results from a for loop in Python
I am new to coding in Python and ran into an issue.
I have a list of domain names that I would like to get whois lookup information of.
I am using a for look to get whois information on every domain in the list called domain_name like this:
for i in…
grandi
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How to query the RIPE API for JSON
How do you get the RIPE REST API to give you in JSON the same data you'd get from the whois command on the command line?
Eg. Something like the output of
whois 1.1.1.1
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