Whois Parser

Whois Parser simply parses raw root or whois data that you supply.

During the parsing process, the package will do a few checks via regular expressions, to determine that the input data is workable as well as determine if the input contains errors or if you've been rate limited. Then the package will clean the input data and format each line into key value pairs. Once that has been completed it will start to iterate through and parse the data into a more readable form and into a reliable output based on your output format preference.

Installation

Install this package via composer:

$ composer require xandco/whoisparser

This service provider must be installed (if using anything below Laravel 5.5)

// config/app.php

'providers' => [
    WhoisParser\WhoisParserServiceProvider::class,
];

Publish and customize configuration file with:

$ php artisan vendor:publish --provider="WhoisParser\WhoisParserServiceProvider"

Usage

Create new WhoisParser object:

use WhoisParser\WhoisParser;
...
$whoisParser = new WhoisParser( $options = [] );

You will need to get the whois data for whatever domain you'd like with an external method, WhoisParser just parses said data. Once you have your raw whois data you can call the parse() method to parse the data:

$whoisParser->parse( '% IANA WHOIS server\n...' ); // root data
$whoisParser->parse( 'Domain Name: EXAMPLE.COM\n...' ); // whois data

Based on whether you provide root data or whois data, the package will return differently structured objects. You will be able to check the type of object returned based on the type key containing either the value root or whois.

Here is an example of both outputs:

/*
 * Example of the `root` type output
 */
[
    'domain' => 'com',
    'is_valid' => true,
    'type' => 'root',
    'data' => [
        'status' => 'active',
        'whois' => 'whois.example.com',
        'contacts' => [
            'sponsor' => [
                'organisation' => 'Example Global Registry Services',
                'address' => [
                    '12345 Example Way',
                    'San Francisco California 94112',
                    'United States'
                ]
            ],
            'administrative' => [...],
            'technical' => [...],
        ],
        'nameservers' => [
            [
                'host' => 'ns.example.com',
                'ipv4' => '127.0.0.0',
                'ipv6' => '::1'
            ],
            ...
        ],
        'dates' => [
            'created' => '1985-01-01 00:00:00',
            'updated' => '2017-10-05 00:00:00',
        ]
    ],
    'raw' => '% IANA WHOIS server\n...' // depending on options
]

/*
 * Example of the `whois` type output
 */
[
    'domain' => 'example.com',
    'is_valid' => true,
    'is_reserved' => false,
    'is_available' => false,
    'type' => 'whois',
    'data' => [
        '_id' => '0897654321_DOMAIN_COM-EXPL',
        'status' => [
            [
                'code' => 'clientUpdateProhibited',
                'url' => 'https:\/\/www.icann.org\/epp#clientUpdateProhibited'
            ],
            ...
        ],
        'whois' => 'whois.example.com',
        'registrar' => [
            '_id' => '123',
            'name' => 'Example, Inc.',
            'whois' => 'whois.example.com',
            'abuse_contact' => [
                'email' => '[email protected]',
                'phone' => '+1.4003219876',
            ],
        ],
        'contacts' => [
            'registrant' => [
                'name' => 'Domain Administrator',
                'organization' => 'Example Corporation',
                'address' => {
                   'street' => '12345 Example Way',
                   'city' => 'San Francisco',
                   'state_province' => 'CA',
                   'postal_code' => '94112',
                   'country' => 'US'
                 },
                'phone' => '+1.0981237645',
                'phone_ext' => null,
                'fax' => '+1.1230984567',
                'fax_ext' => null,
                'email' => '[email protected]',
            ],
            'administrative' => [...],
            'technical' => [...],
            'billing' => [...], // depending on options
        ],
        'nameservers' => [
            [
                'host' => 'ns.example.com',
                'ipv4' => null, // depending on options
                'ipv6' => null // depending on options
            ],
            ...
        ],
        'dnssec' => 'unsigned',
        'dates' => [
            'created' => '1991-05-01 21:00:00',
            'updated' => '2020-06-03 13:24:15',
            'expiration' => '2021-05-02 21:00:00',
        ]
    ],
    'raw' => 'Domain Name: EXAMPLE.COM\n...' // depending on options
]

Options

When creating the WhoisParser object, there is only one array parameter that can be passed, which is optional.

Options array parameters:

Option	Notes	Type	Default
output_format	options (object, array, json, serialize)	string	object
get_nserver_ip	try getting nameserver ips (using gethostbyname())	bool	false
parse_billing	try parsing billing contact (not always available)	bool	false
return_raw_data	debug option, return raw input	bool	false

Instead of setting these options when creating the object, you can alternatively set these globally in the configuration file, as well as modify the regex patterns used to determine things like: invalid, rate limited whois responses and reserved, taken, available domains. You can publish the configuration and customize it as shown in the Installation section.

Changelog

Please see the changelog for more information on what has changed recently.

Testing

$ composer test

Contributing

Please see contributing.md for details and a todolist.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

• X&Co
• Miguel Batres
• All Contributors

License

MIT - Please see the license file for more information.