diff -r 7636ed3adf86 -r bc23472ae284 README.md --- a/README.md Wed Aug 12 14:14:01 2015 +0800 +++ /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 @@ -1,56 +0,0 @@ -# Goal # - * Create a simple importable Python module which will produce parsed WHOIS data for a given domain. - * Able to extract data for all the popular TLDs (com, org, net, ...) - * Query a WHOIS server directly instead of going through an intermediate web service like many others do. - * Works with Python 2.4+ and no external dependencies - - -# Example # - - -``` -#!python - ->>> import whois ->>> w = whois.whois('webscraping.com') ->>> w.expiration_date # dates converted to datetime object -datetime.datetime(2013, 6, 26, 0, 0) ->>> w.text # the content downloaded from whois server -u'\nWhois Server Version 2.0\n\nDomain names in the .com and .net -...' - ->>> print w # print values of all found attributes -creation_date: 2004-06-26 00:00:00 -domain_name: [u'WEBSCRAPING.COM', u'WEBSCRAPING.COM'] -emails: [u'WEBSCRAPING.COM@domainsbyproxy.com', u'WEBSCRAPING.COM@domainsbyproxy.com'] -expiration_date: 2013-06-26 00:00:00 -... - -``` - - - -# Install # -Install from pypi: - - -``` -#!python - -pip install python-whois - -``` - -Or checkout latest version from repository: - -``` -#!python - -hg clone https://code.google.com/p/pywhois/ - -``` - -# Contact # -You can post ideas or patches here: [https://bitbucket.org/richardpenman/pywhois/issues](https://bitbucket.org/richardpenman/pywhois/issues) - -Thanks to the many who have sent patches for additional domains! \ No newline at end of file