How do I run a WHOIS lookup with PHP or Python? - php

Question

So anyways, I'm working on a small PHP website/script, and as one of the features I'd like to be able to run a WHOIS lookup on the current domain the PHP script is running on.
Ideally, it would be one function that I could call and in the function it would run the WHOIS, and then echo the results to the screen. It would take in the URL of the site to run the WHOIS lookup on, or it would just run it on the current URL/Domain (which is what I want), although I can feed it a variable for the website domain if need be.
I don't know much about WHOIS lookups (well, I know what they do, I just don't know how to run them in PHP), but I'd also be fine with having to query another website (even one of my own if you can give me the code for it).
Whatever works, please just let me know! The main thing is that, I'd prefer it to fit all in one function, and it definitely must fit in one PHP file/document.

Answer 1

With php you can use shell_exec to execute the whois command.
<?php
$whois = shell_exec("whois domain.net");
echo '<pre>';
print_r($whois);
?>

Answer 2

This should do exactly what you want... http://www.phpwhois.org/
I've used this class before, doing exactly what you want!

Answer 3

To take Pavels answer one step further - this will break it down in to an array:
$whois = shell_exec("whois 45.118.135.255");
$result = explode("\n",$whois);
$out = array();
foreach ($result as $line){
if (substr($line,0,1) == '%' || substr($line,0,1) == '#'){ continue; }
$ps = explode(':',$line);
$out[trim($ps[0])] = trim($ps[1]);
}
print '<pre>'; print_r($out); print '</pre>';

Answer 4

There are some third party packages:
First one : io-developer/php-whois
composer require io-developer/php-whois
Usage:
// How to get summary about domain:
<?php
use Iodev\Whois\Factory;
// Creating default configured client
$whois = Factory::get()->createWhois();
// Checking availability
if ($whois->isDomainAvailable("google.com")) {
print "Bingo! Domain is available! :)";
}
// Supports Unicode (converts to punycode)
if ($whois->isDomainAvailable("почта.рф")) {
print "Bingo! Domain is available! :)";
}
// Getting raw-text lookup
$response = $whois->lookupDomain("google.com");
print $response->text;
// Getting parsed domain info
$info = $whois->loadDomainInfo("google.com");
print_r([
'Domain created' => date("Y-m-d", $info->creationDate),
'Domain expires' => date("Y-m-d", $info->expirationDate),
'Domain owner' => $info->owner,
]);
// Exceptions on domain lookup:
<?php
use Iodev\Whois\Factory;
use Iodev\Whois\Exceptions\ConnectionException;
use Iodev\Whois\Exceptions\ServerMismatchException;
use Iodev\Whois\Exceptions\WhoisException;
try {
$whois = Factory::get()->createWhois();
$info = $whois->loadDomainInfo("google.com");
if (!$info) {
print "Null if domain available";
exit;
}
print $info->domainName . " expires at: " . date("d.m.Y H:i:s", $info->expirationDate);
} catch (ConnectionException $e) {
print "Disconnect or connection timeout";
} catch (ServerMismatchException $e) {
print "TLD server (.com for google.com) not found in current server hosts";
} catch (WhoisException $e) {
print "Whois server responded with error '{$e->getMessage()}'";
}
If you are using Laravel : laravel-whois
composer require larva/laravel-whois -vv
php artisan migrate
Usage:
$info = \Larva\Whois\Whois::lookup('baidu.com', true);
$info = \Larva\Whois\Whois::lookupRaw('google.com');

Answer 5

Best thing to do would be to use pywhois. Though you say Python in the question title but don't mention it in the post. If you actually need PHP, I'm sure there's something equivalent for that.

Answer 6

I found it here: https://whoisfreaks.com/documentation/api/whois-api.html. You can get Whoislook up by using PHP thru this code snippet:
'https://api.whoisfreaks.com/v1.0/whois?whois=live&domainName=jfreaks.com&apikey=Your API_Key',
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'GET',
));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
echo $response;
I hope it'll work for you too.

Answer 7

Try the Function Which is available in github gist
https://gist.github.com/ManojKiranA/4b034659e85fa02308ad9bdcdd05629c
For the full list of TLDs/Whois servers see http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/ and http://www.whois365.com/en/listtld/