README.rst

pywhois

A Python module for retrieving WHOIS information of domains.

This project has been cloned from http://code.google.com/p/pywhois/

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 2.4+ and no external dependencies

Example

>>> import pywhois
>>> w = pywhois.whois('google.com')
>>> w.expiration_date
['14-sep-2011']
>>> w.emails
['[email protected]',
 '[email protected]',
 '[email protected]',
 '[email protected]']
>>> print w
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