How to Get Domain Name Information Using Python

In this tutorial, we will be building a Python program to extract information from a domain name such as the registrar, expiry, creation date, name servers, and many more.

To begin we first need to install a module called python-whois. Now we need to run the command below to install it.

pip install python-whois

Next, create a file called test-domain.py and import our module.

import whois

Now let’s create a class to extract all the information we need from a domain name.

class DomainInfo:
    def __init__(self, domain):
        self.domain = domain
        self.whois_info = whois.whois(domain)

    def get_expiration_date(self):
        return self.whois_info.expiration_date

    def get_creation_date(self):
        return self.whois_info.creation_date

    def get_updated_date(self):
        return self.whois_info.updated_date

    def get_domain_name(self):
        return self.whois_info.domain_name

    def get_name_servers(self):
        return self.whois_info.name_servers

    def get_registrar(self):
        return self.whois_info.registrar


if __name__ == '__main__':
    domain = input("Enter the domain : ")
    domain_info = DomainInfo(domain)
    print("Expiration date : ", domain_info.get_expiration_date())
    print("Creation date : ", domain_info.get_creation_date())
    print("Updated date : ", domain_info.get_updated_date())
    print("Domain name : ", domain_info.get_domain_name())
    print("Name Servers : ", domain_info.get_name_servers())
    print("Registrar : ", domain_info.get_registrar())

In the code above we get the expiration date, creation date, domain name, name servers, and the registrar.

Run

Open your terminal and run the command below.

python3 test-domain.py

After the command above runs you should see the information displayed.

Results

Enter the domain : youtube.com
Expiration date :  [datetime.datetime(2024, 2, 15, 5, 13, 12), datetime.datetime(2024, 2, 15, 0, 0)]
Creation date :  2005-02-15 05:13:12
Updated date :  2023-01-14 09:25:19
Domain name :  ['YOUTUBE.COM', 'youtube.com']
Name Servers :  ['NS1.GOOGLE.COM', 'NS2.GOOGLE.COM', 'NS3.GOOGLE.COM', 'NS4.GOOGLE.COM', 'ns2.google.com', 'ns1.google.com', 'ns3.google.com', 'ns4.google.com']
Registrar :  MarkMonitor, Inc.

There you have it, Thanks for reading. Happy Coding.