parsed_whois: Parsed Whois

In hrbrmstr/domaintools: Toolkit for Querying and Working with WHOIS and IP Address Data Provided by the DomainTools API

Description

The Parsed Whois API provides parsed information extracted from the raw Whois record. The API is optimized to quickly retrieve the Whois record, group important data together and return a well-structured format. The Parsed Whois API is ideal for anyone wishing to search for, index, or cross-reference data from one or multiple Whois records.

Usage

parsed_whois(domain)

Arguments

domain

domain to perform the Whois query on

Details

The successful retrieval and parsing of a record will always return at least two key pieces of information in its response; the most recent Whois record of the domain you requested and the parsed out data. In rare cases, parsing a record may not be successful. If that occurs, the system will respond with an 206 (partial content) and return an error code with error message. It will still return the Whois record even if it has failed to parse.

The Parsed Whois API formatting returns astructure that contains key-value pairing data grouped together by similar data characteristics. Some key data points include contact information for registrant, admins, tech, billing information, registrar information, registrar, name servers, and important date information about the record like expiration, created, and updated. In addition, each piece of data that is parsed is normalized to a consistent format to ensure consistency. Normalization affects dates, country and phone number data as well as lowercases all data parsed. In the event that a normalization could not be applied, the original parsed data is returned for that specific key/value pairing.

Value

a list of parsed Whois result detais for the domain

Note

Not all data elements will be available for all domains. What is available depends on the Whois record returned for that domain.

References

http://www.domaintools.com/resources/api-documentation/parsed-whois/

Examples

parsed_whois("domaintools.com")
parsed_whois("dailychanges.com")

hrbrmstr/domaintools documentation built on May 17, 2019, 4:56 p.m.