sitesniffer

Site Sniffer in Python 🐽

Site Sniffer is a Python package designed to extract information about a website by providing its URL. It is useful for individuals who need to perform website analysis, including web developers, SEO specialists, and website owners. The package extracts various details such as the IP address, HTTP status code, SSL certificate information, domain registration details, load time, meta description, keywords, and a list of links on the page.

Installation

Install sitesniffer with pip:

pip install sitesniffer

Alternativly:

pip install git+https://github.com/thisisjsimon/SiteSniffer.git

Usage

Make sure that you have installed Python 3.11 before proceeding.

To use SiteSniffer, you need to import it first:

from sitesniffer import SiteSniffer

Then, create an instance of the SiteSniffer class by providing the URL of the website you want to analyze:

sniffer = SiteSniffer('https://example.com')

You can then call the methods of the SiteSniffer object to get various details about the website:

print(sniffer.ip_address())
print(sniffer.domain_info())
print(sniffer.status_code())
# See docs for full list

Each of the methods in this package returns the corresponding detail of the website. For example, get_ip_address() returns the IP address of the website.

Example

from sitesniffer import SiteSniffer

sniffer = SiteSniffer('https://google.com')
print(sniffer.ip_address())

Output

'142.250.185.110'

Essential Python Libraries for Web Scraping and HTTP Requests

The following Python libraries are essential for working with the sitesniffer package:

# standard library
import re
import socket
import ssl
import time
import typing
import urllib.parse
import dataclasses

# third party
import bs4
import idna
import requests
import whois

Docs

The defined functions included in SiteSniffer

Function Name	Function Description
extract_protocol	Extracts the protocol from the URL.
extract_hostname	Extracts the hostname from the URL.
extract_path	Extracts the path from the URL.
ip_address	Returns the IP address of the domain.
domain_info	Returns the domain information for the website.
status_code	Returns the HTTP status code of the website.
ssl_info	Returns the SSL certificate information for the website.
load_time	Returns the website's load time.
links	Returns a list of links found on the website.
is_mobile_friendly	Checks if the website is mobile-friendly.
has_responsive_design	Checks if the website has a responsive design.
has_cookies	Checks if the website uses cookies.
has_google_analytics	Checks if the website has Google Analytics installed.
page_meta_description	Returns the website's meta description.
has_meta_description	Checks if the website has a meta description.
page_keywords	Returns the website's keywords.
has_keywords	Checks if the website has keywords.