[SOLVED] Doing a whois with a list of domain names

Doing a whois with a list of domain names

I've got a file of domain names e.g. equivalent to 2500.

I would like to do a whois on these domain names.

Issue is I've never done that and don't know where to start. If you have any ideas, I'm all ears.

TIA.

Solution

You can also use the Linux commandtool whois. The following code opens a subprocess and searches for the domain.

But you have to be carefull with many requests in short time. The servers will eventually block you after a while. ;)

import subprocess

def find_whois(domain):
    # Linux 'whois' command wrapper
    # 
    # Executes a whois lookup with the linux command whois.
    # Returncodes from: https://github.com/rfc1036/whois/blob/master/whois.c

    domain = domain.lower().strip()
    d = domain.split('.')
    if d[0] == 'www': d = d[1:]

    # Run command with timeout
    proc = subprocess.Popen(['whois', domain], stderr=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
    ans,err = proc.communicate(input)

    if err == 1: raise WhoisError('No Whois Server for this TLD or wrong query syntax') 
    elif err == 2: raise WhoisError('Whois has timed out after ' + str(whois_timeout) + ' seconds. (try again later or try higher timeout)')
    ans = ans.decode('UTF-8')
    return ans


with open('domains.txt') as input:
    with open('out.txt','a') as output:
        for line in input:
            output.write(find_whois(line))

The with open as statement handles the filestream. The 'a' at the output file means the file is opened in append-mode.