whois plugin

[jnaskali]

This plugin can answer questions like:

• Is the domain sweetnewdomain.com already taken?
• When was google.com created?
• What dns servers does duckduckgo.com use?
• When does my domain naskali.fi expire?

[n3d1117]

Hi @jnaskali awesome idea! Thanks for sharing.

Although I couldn't make it work until I changed:

try:
    whois_result = whois.whois(kwargs['domain'])
    return whois_result
except whois.parser.PywhoisError as e:
    return {'result': 'No such domain found'}
except Exception as e:
    return {'error': 'An unexpected error occurred: ' + str(e)}

to:

try:
    whois_result = whois.query(kwargs['domain'])
    if whois_result is None:
        return {'result': 'No such domain found'}
    return whois_result.__dict__
except Exception as e:
    return {'error': 'An unexpected error occurred: ' + str(e)}

Since my installation of whois had no whois function, only query. Have you seen this?

[jnaskali]

Oops... I was apparently using the python-whois package for development, which uses older syntax. Your code works with the updated whois library version I manually entered in the readme, and is more elegant.

[n3d1117]

Cool! If you update the plugin code I'll merge this asap!

[jnaskali]

Done 👍