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ipwhois

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

Features

  • Parses a majority of whois fields in to a standard dictionary
  • IPv4 and IPv6 support
  • Referral whois support
  • Supports REST queries (useful if whois is blocked from your network)
  • Proxy support for REST queries
  • Recursive network parsing for IPs with parent/children networks listed
  • Python 2.6+ and 3.3+ supported
  • Useful set of utilities
  • BSD license

Links

Documentation

https://secynic.github.io/ipwhois

Github

https://github.com/secynic/ipwhois

Pypi

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

Usage Examples

Typical usage

>>>> from ipwhois import IPWhois
>>>> from pprint import pprint

>>>> obj = IPWhois('74.125.225.229')
>>>> results = obj.lookup()
>>>> pprint(results)

{
'asn': '15169',
'asn_cidr': '74.125.225.0/24',
'asn_country_code': 'US',
'asn_date': '2007-03-13',
'asn_registry': 'arin',
'nets': [{'abuse_emails': '[email protected]',
          'address': '1600 Amphitheatre Parkway',
          'cidr': '74.125.0.0/16',
          'city': 'Mountain View',
          'country': 'US',
          'created': '2007-03-13T00:00:00',
          'description': 'Google Inc.',
          'handle': 'NET-74-125-0-0-1',
          'misc_emails': None,
          'name': 'GOOGLE',
          'postal_code': '94043',
          'range': '74.125.0.0 - 74.125.255.255',
          'state': 'CA',
          'tech_emails': '[email protected]',
          'updated': '2012-02-24T00:00:00'}],
'query': '74.125.225.229',
'raw': None,
'raw_referral': None,
'referral': None
}

Multiple networks listed and referral whois

>>>> from ipwhois import IPWhois
>>>> from pprint import pprint

>>>> obj = IPWhois('38.113.198.252')
>>>> results = obj.lookup(get_referral=True)
>>>> pprint(results)

{
'asn': '174',
'asn_cidr': '38.0.0.0/8',
'asn_country_code': 'US',
'asn_date': '',
'asn_registry': 'arin',
'nets': [{'abuse_emails': '[email protected]',
          'address': '1015 31st St NW',
          'cidr': '38.0.0.0/8',
          'city': 'Washington',
          'country': 'US',
          'created': '1991-04-16T00:00:00',
          'description': 'PSINet, Inc.',
          'handle': 'NET-38-0-0-0-1',
          'misc_emails': None,
          'name': 'COGENT-A',
          'postal_code': '20007',
          'range': '38.0.0.0 - 38.255.255.255',
          'state': 'DC',
          'tech_emails': '[email protected]',
          'updated': '2011-05-20T00:00:00'},
         {'abuse_emails': '[email protected]',
          'address': '1015 31st St NW',
          'cidr': '38.112.0.0/13',
          'city': 'Washington',
          'country': 'US',
          'created': '2003-08-20T00:00:00',
          'description': 'PSINet, Inc.',
          'handle': 'NET-38-112-0-0-1',
          'misc_emails': None,
          'name': 'COGENT-NB-0002',
          'postal_code': '20007',
          'range': None,
          'state': 'DC',
          'tech_emails': '[email protected]',
          'updated': '2004-03-11T00:00:00'}],
'query': '38.113.198.252',
'raw': None,
'raw_referral': None,
'referral': {'address': '1015 31st St NW',
             'cidr': '38.113.198.0/23',
             'city': 'Washington',
             'country': 'US',
             'description': 'Cogent communications - IPENG',
             'name': 'NET4-2671C60017',
             'postal_code': '20007',
             'state': 'DC',
             'updated': '2007-09-18 22:02:09'}
}

Whois lookup via HTTP (REST)

>>>> from ipwhois import IPWhois
>>>> from pprint import pprint

>>>> obj = IPWhois('74.125.225.229')
>>>> results = obj.lookup_rws()
>>>> pprint(results)

{
'asn': '15169',
'asn_cidr': '74.125.225.0/24',
'asn_country_code': 'US',
'asn_date': '2007-03-13',
'asn_registry': 'arin',
'nets': [{'abuse_emails': '[email protected]',
          'address': '1600 Amphitheatre Parkway',
          'cidr': '74.125.0.0/16',
          'city': 'Mountain View',
          'country': 'US',
          'created': '2007-03-13T12:09:54-04:00',
          'description': 'Google Inc.',
          'handle': 'NET-74-125-0-0-1',
          'misc_emails': None,
          'name': 'GOOGLE',
          'postal_code': '94043',
          'range': '74.125.0.0 - 74.125.255.255',
          'state': 'CA',
          'tech_emails': '[email protected]',
          'updated': '2012-02-24T09:44:34-05:00'}],
'query': '74.125.225.229',
'raw': None
}

Use a proxy

>>>> from urllib import request
>>>> from ipwhois import IPWhois
>>>> handler = request.ProxyHandler({'http': 'http://192.168.0.1:80/'})
>>>> opener = request.build_opener(handler)
>>>> obj = IPWhois('74.125.225.229', proxy_opener = opener)

Retrieve host information for an IP address

>>>> from ipwhois import IPWhois
>>>> from pprint import pprint

>>>> obj = IPWhois('74.125.225.229')
>>>> results = obj.get_host()
>>>> pprint(results)

('dfw06s26-in-f5.1e100.net', [], ['74.125.225.229'])

Retrieve the official country name for an ISO 3166-1 country code

>>>> from ipwhois import IPWhois
>>>> from ipwhois.utils import get_countries

>>>> countries = get_countries()
>>>> obj = IPWhois('74.125.225.229')
>>>> results = obj.lookup(False)
>>>> print(countries[results['nets'][0]['country']])

United States

Parse out IP addresses and ports from text or a file

>>>> from ipwhois.utils import unique_addresses
>>>> from pprint import pprint

>>>> input_data = (
    'You can have IPs like 74.125.225.229, or 2001:4860:4860::8888'
    'Put a port at the end 74.125.225.229:80 or for IPv6: '
    '[2001:4860:4860::8888]:443 or even networks like '
    '74.125.0.0/16 and 2001:4860::/32.'
)

>>>> results = unique_addresses(data=input_data, file_path=None)
>>>> pprint(results)

{'2001:4860:4860::8888': {'count': 2, 'ports': {'443': 1}},
 '2001:4860::/32': {'count': 1, 'ports': {}},
 '74.125.0.0/16': {'count': 1, 'ports': {}},
 '74.125.225.229': {'count': 2, 'ports': {'80': 1}}}

Dependencies

Python 2.6, 2.7:

dnspython
ipaddr

Python 3.3+:

dnspython3

Installing

Latest version from PyPi:

pip install --upgrade ipwhois

Latest version from GitHub:

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

Parsing

Parsing is currently limited to CIDR, country, name, handle, range, description, state, city, address, postal_code, abuse_emails, tech_emails, misc_emails, created and updated fields. This is assuming that those fields are present (for both whois and rwhois).

Some IPs have parent networks listed. The parser attempts to recognize this, and break the networks into individual dictionaries. If a single network has multiple CIDRs, they will be separated by ', '.

Sometimes, you will see whois information with multiple consecutive same name fields, e.g., Description: some text\nDescription: more text. The parser will recognize this and the returned result will have the values separated by '\n'.

REST (HTTP)

IPWhois.lookup_rws() should be faster than IPWhois.lookup(), but may not be as reliable. REST queries do not support referral whois lookups. AFRINIC does not have a Whois-RWS service yet; we have to rely on the Ripe RWS service, which does not contain all of the data we need. The LACNIC RWS service is supported, but is in beta. This may result in availability or performance issues.

Country Codes

The legacy country code listing (iso_3166-1_list_en.xml) is no longer available as a free export from iso.org. Support has been added for iso_3166-1.csv, which is now the default.

Use Legacy XML File:

>>>> from ipwhois.utils import get_countries
>>>> countries = get_countries(is_legacy_xml=True)

IP Reputation Support?

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

Domain Support?

There are no plans for domain whois support in this project. It is under consideration as a new library in the future.

For now, consider using Sven Slootweg's python-whois for a library with domain support.

Special Thanks

Thank you JetBrains for the PyCharm open source support.

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