Whoxy

Interact with the Whoxy API for retrieving WHOIS data on domains.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'whoxy'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install whoxy

Simply require the service, configure your key, then start looking up domains.

require 'whoxy'

Whoxy.configure do |config|
  config.key = ENV['WHOXY_KEY']
  # specify your own faraday connection (except for host)
  # config.connection do |conn|
  # ...
  # end
end

whois = Whoxy::Client.new
whois.lookup("google.com")
#=> Hash

Rather than force you to remember to take off sub-domains or URI schemes, the lookup command can handle that for you.

# ✓ returns Whoxy API results for 'ofdomain.com'
whois.lookup("subdomain.ofdomain.com")

# ✓ returns Whoxy API results for 'google.com'
whois.lookup("http://google.com")

# ✓ returns Whoxy API results for 'bar.com'
whois.lookup("mailto:foo@bar.com")

# ✓ returns Whoxy API results for 'bar.com'
whois.lookup("foo@bar.com")
#=> raises ArgumentError

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/ormtech/whoxy.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.