whois

A simple and free whois client

Pure Nim score 15/100 · tests present · no docs generated

Summary

Latest Version Unknown
License MIT
CI Status Failing
Downloads 0
Last Indexed 2026-07-21 05:24

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Installation

nimble install whois
choosenim install whois
git clone https://github.com/thisago/whois

OS Compatibility

Platform Linux macOS Windows FreeBSD OpenBSD NetBSD Android iOS WASM Embedded
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Source

Repository https://github.com/thisago/whois
Homepage https://github.com/thisago/whois
Registry Source nimble_official

README

Whois.nim

The Whois.nim is a simple whois client. With cache (kashae)!

The doyosi whois demo website is down, to use this lib you will need an instance of that


Requirements

  • The Nim (Official website) programming language (Min version 1.4.0)
  • Nimble (Github), the Nim's package manager

Hint: Install Nim with Choosenim (Github)

Installation

Directly with Nimble

# Install directly with Nimble
nimble install whois

or

Directly with Nimble (with url)

# Install directly with Nimble (with url)
nimble install https://github.com/thisago/whois.nim

or

Manually with Nimble

# Clone repo
git clone https://github.com/thisago/whois.nim

# go to folder
cd whois

# Install (with Nimble)
nimble install -y

Docs

You can find the docs in Github pages

Usage

example/example.nim

import whois

echo whois("duckduckgo.com")

# or

var domain = "metager.org".toDomain # convert to a `Domain` instance
domain.update() # Get data from API

echo domain

Run:

nim c -r -d:ssl -d:release example/example.nim

NOTE: Compile with -d:ssl

TODO

  • [ ] Change the nimble package url from gitea to github

Contributing

Its easy to create a parser for another API!

Just see src/whois/api_doyosi.nim to understand how simple is it.

All definitions is in src/whois/core.nim.

  • Create a new file in src/whois/ called api_APINAME.nim
  • Import module src/whois/core.nim
  • Export a function named apiFetch
  • In src/whois.nim
  • Import the new api parser using: nim from whois/api_APINAME.nim import nil
  • Call the apiFetch function in update in end like: nim if api_APINAME.apiFetch(self, noCache): return # If any error, try next API

NOTICE

The implemented API service has no relation with this lib.