[Security Scripts] Whois for Python

Whois.py is a script that makes it fast and easy to store Arin information about specific IPs. The script was written with no library dependencies or setup steps. It runs on multiple platforms.

Version:

1.0

Platform:

Windows/ Linux

Author(s):

Jesse Salmon

Date Added:

6/29/2010

Date Updated:

6/29/2010

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Code:

# This script will use arin.net to lookup an IP address

# and display the findings

__author__=”jsalmon”

__date__ =”$Jun 24, 2010 10:40:20 AM$”

import urllib2

import re

import sys

import tempfile

import os

regexIP = r”b(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?).” +

“(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?).” +

“(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?).” +

“(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)b”

regexHTML = r”<[^<]*?/?>”

#For Testing.

#searchIP = “192.168.1.1″

temp = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()

#

#Get the source code from the web page

#

def fetchSource(URL):

url = urllib2.urlopen(url)

source = url.read()

return source

#

#Clean and remove all HTML

#

def cleanSource(content):

source = str(content)

for match in re.finditer(regexHTML, content):

print match.group(0)source = source.replace(str(match.group(0)), ”)

return source

#

#Entry point

#

if __name__ == “__main__”:

#Get the IP address to search

if searchIP:

print “I have the IP.”

else:

searchIP = raw_input(“Please enter the IP address: “)

#format the raw_input string for an IPraw_string = re.match(regexIP, searchIP)

if raw_string:

searchstring = raw_string.group(0)

print “The IP I’ll look for is: %s ” % searchstring

else:

sys.exit(“Exit: Please enter a valid IP address”)

url = “http://ws.arin.net/whois/?queryinput=” + searchstring

source = fetchSource(URL)

capStart = source.index(‘<pre>’) + 6

capEnd = source.index(‘</pre>’)

printSource = cleanSource(source[capStart:capEnd])

print

try:temp.write(printSource + “n”)

print ‘temp.name:’, temp.name

temp.flush()

finally:

# Automatically cleans up the file

#os.system(‘notepad.exe ‘ + temp.name) # For Windows uncomment

os.system(‘gedit ‘ + temp.name) # For Ubuntu uncomment

temp.close()

print “Complete. All Whois sites will be added soon.”