ipwhois

Summary

ipwhois is a Python package focused on retrieving and parsing whois data for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

Attention!

NIR (National Internet Registry) lookups are now enabled by default. This is currently only performed for JPNIC and KRNIC addresses. To disable, set inc_nir=False in your IPWhois.lookup_*() query.

Attention!

The 'nets' -> 'emails' key in IPWhois.lookup_whois() has been changed from a '\n' separated string to a list.

Important

RDAP (IPWhois.lookup_rdap()) is the recommended query method as of v0.11.0. If you are upgrading from earlier than 0.11.0, please see the upgrade info.

Note

If you are experiencing latency issues, it is likely related to rate limiting. Profiling the tests, I see most time spent attributed to network latency. Rate limiting is based on your source IP, which may be a problem with multiple users behind the same proxy. Additionally, LACNIC implements aggressive rate limiting. Bulk query optimization is on the roadmap (secynic#134)

Features

• Parses a majority of whois fields in to a standard dictionary
• IPv4 and IPv6 support
• Supports RDAP queries (recommended method, see: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7483)
• Proxy support for RDAP queries
• Supports legacy whois protocol queries
• Referral whois support for legacy whois protocol
• Recursive network parsing for IPs with parent/children networks listed
• National Internet Registry support for JPNIC and KRNIC
• Supports ASN origin queries
• Python 2.6+ and 3.3+ supported
• Useful set of utilities
• BSD license
• 100% core code coverage (See '# pragma: no cover' for exclusions)
• Human readable field translations
• Full CLI for IPWhois with optional ANSI colored console output.

Links

Documentation

Release v0.15.0

https://ipwhois.readthedocs.io/en/v0.15.0

GitHub master

https://ipwhois.readthedocs.io/en/latest

GitHub dev

https://ipwhois.readthedocs.io/en/dev

Examples

https://github.com/secynic/ipwhois/tree/master/ipwhois/examples

Github

https://github.com/secynic/ipwhois

Pypi

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipwhois

Changes

https://ipwhois.readthedocs.io/en/latest/CHANGES.html

Dependencies

Python 2.6:

dnspython
ipaddr
argparse (required only for CLI)

Python 2.7:

dnspython
ipaddr

Python 3.3+:

dnspython3

Installing

Latest release from PyPi:

pip install --upgrade ipwhois

GitHub - Stable:

pip install -e git+https://github.com/secynic/ipwhois@master#egg=ipwhois

GitHub - Dev:

pip install -e git+https://github.com/secynic/ipwhois@dev#egg=ipwhois

Firewall Ports

ipwhois needs some outbound firewall ports opened from your host/server.

ASN (DNS):	53/tcp
ASN (Whois):	43/tcp
ASN (HTTP):	80/tcp 443/tcp (Pending)
RDAP (HTTP):	80/tcp 443/tcp (Pending)
Legacy Whois:	43/tcp
Get Host:	43/tcp

API

IPWhois (main class)

ipwhois.IPWhois is the base class for wrapping RDAP and Legacy Whois lookups. Instantiate this object, then call one of the lookup functions:

RDAP (HTTP) - IPWhois.lookup_rdap() OR Legacy Whois - IPWhois.lookup_whois()

Input

Key	Type	Description
address	String	An IPv4 or IPv6 address as a string, integer, IPv4Address, or IPv6Address.
timeout	Int	The default timeout for socket connections in seconds.
proxy_opener	Object	The urllib.request.OpenerDirector request for proxy support or None.
allow_permutations	Bool	Allow net.Net() to use additional methods if DNS lookups to Cymru fail.

RDAP (HTTP)

IPWhois.lookup_rdap() is the recommended lookup method. RDAP provides a far better data structure than legacy whois and REST lookups (previous implementation). RDAP queries allow for parsing of contact information and details for users, organizations, and groups. RDAP also provides more detailed network information.

RDAP documentation:

https://ipwhois.readthedocs.io/en/latest/RDAP.html

Legacy Whois

IPWhois.lookup() is deprecated as of v0.12.0 and will be removed. Legacy whois lookups were moved to IPWhois.lookup_whois().

Legacy Whois documentation:

https://ipwhois.readthedocs.io/en/latest/WHOIS.html

National Internet Registries

This library now supports NIR lookups for JPNIC and KRNIC. Previously, Whois and RDAP data for Japan and South Korea was restricted. NIR lookups scrape these national registries directly for the data restricted from regional internet registries. NIR queries are enabled by default via the inc_nir argument in the IPWhois.lookup_*() functions.

https://ipwhois.readthedocs.io/en/latest/NIR.html

Autonomous System Numbers

This library now supports ASN origin lookups via Whois and HTTP. There is no IPWhois wrapper or CLI for these yet.

https://ipwhois.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ASN.html

Utilities

Utilities documentation:

https://ipwhois.readthedocs.io/en/latest/UTILS.html

Scripts

CLI documentation:

https://ipwhois.readthedocs.io/en/latest/CLI.html

Contributing

https://ipwhois.readthedocs.io/en/latest/CONTRIBUTING.html

IP Reputation Support

This feature is under consideration. Take a look at TekDefense's Automater:

TekDefense-Automater

Domain Support

There are no plans for domain whois support in this project.

Look at Sven Slootweg's python-whois for a library with domain support.

Special Thanks

Thank you JetBrains for the PyCharm open source support!