ipwhois is a Python package focused on retrieving and parsing whois data for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
If you are experiencing latency issues, it is likely related to rate limiting. 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.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Parses a majority of whois fields in to a standard dictionary.
- IPv4 and IPv6 support.
- Supports RDAP queries.
- 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 IP to ASN and ASN origin queries.
- Python 2.7 and 3.4+ supported.
- Useful set of utilities.
- Experimental bulk query support.
- Human readable field translations.
- Full CLI for IPWhois with optional ANSI colored console output.
Website: github.com/secynic/ipwhois
Support:
Developer: Philip Hane
License: BSD 2-Clause “Simplified” License
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Related Software
| Alternatives to whois | |
|---|---|
| GNOME Nettool | Performs ping, netstat, traceroute, port scans, lookup, and whois (GUI) |
| jwhois | Improved whois client |
| ipwhois | Retrieve and parse whois data for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses |
| OpenRDAP | Command line RDAP client implementation in Go |
| quien | Terminal-based domain intelligence toolkit |
| rdapper | Simple console-based RDAP client |
| rdapper (TypeScript) | Node library that performs domain registration lookups |
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