whois-api

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========
Overview
========

The client library for
`Whois API <https://whois.whoisxmlapi.com/>`_
in Python language.

The minimum Python version is 3.7.

Installation
============
::

    pip install whois-api

Examples
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Full API documentation available `here <https://whois.whoisxmlapi.com/api/documentation/making-requests>`_

Create a new client
-------------------

::

    from whoisapi import *

    client = Client(api_key='Your API key')

Make basic requests
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::

    # Get parsed whois record as a model instance.
    whois = client.data('whoisxmlapi.com')
    # Get particular field of the whois record
    print(whois.created_date_raw)

    # Get raw API response
    resp_str = client.raw_data('whoisxmlapi.com')

Additional options
-------------------
You can specify a custom parameters for particular request


::

    params = RequestParameters(ignore_raw_texts=1, da=2)

    whois = client.data('whoisxmlapi.com', params)
    print(whois.domain_availability_raw)

    # Also you can modify default values of parameters:
    client.parameters.output_format = 'xml'
    print(client.raw_data('whoisxmlapi.com'))


Changelog
=========

1.2.0 (2023-07-31)
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* Fix datetime parsing

1.1.4 (2023-07-31)
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* Fix datetime parsing
* Add postal_code_str field

1.1.3 (2023-07-31)
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* Bump requests
* Drop Python 3.6 support

1.1.2 (2022-11-08)
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* Bump urllib3

1.1.1 (2021-11-19)
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* Added postal address error handling

1.1.0 (2021-04-21)
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* Minor fixes
* Error class 'UnparableApiResponse' was renamed to 'UnparsableApiResponseError'


1.0.0 (2021-04-12)
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* First release