A client for https://whoisxmlapi.com, that returns results in JSON.

The whoisxmlapi is a non-REST HTTP API, ie, it's not very good.

• GET is used to change things
• Resources aren't endpoints, instead the same resource is accessed by different query parameters to do very different things
• Credentials are insecurely sent in query strings rather than headers (these can leak into caches etc)
• JSON is sent with incorrect content encoding
• Numbers are sent as Strings
• Booleans are sent as Numbers

However, whoisxmlapi works reliably. Other services I've tried (particularly https://jsonwhois.com) sporadically gave 500 errors and staff didn't respond in a reasonable time about fixing them.

Hence writing this module to:

• a) help me use the service
• b) save you the trouble of working around the oddness described above

Now requires node 8

This library now uses async/awaitfrom node 8. This means you can await results from your whois tests without callbacks.

const result = await whois.lookup('google.com')

Use v1 if you really like callbacks.

Installation

npm install whoisxmlapi

Usage

Just:

var whois = require('whoisxmlapi')(username, password, options);

Where:

• username and password are Strings and mandatory
• options is an Object and optional.

Options

• cacheMaxItems - how many whois results to keep in the cache.

That's all for now.

Basic whois lookup

const result = await whois.lookup('google.com')
console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 2))

Returns the following results:

{
	"WhoisRecord": {
		"createdDate": "1997-09-15T00:00:00-0700",
		"updatedDate": "2015-06-12T10:38:52-0700",
		"expiresDate": "2020-09-13T21:00:00-0700",
		"registrant": {
			"name": "Dns Admin",
			"organization": "Google Inc.",
			"street1": "Please contact [email protected], 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway",
			"city": "Mountain View",
			"state": "CA",
			"postalCode": "94043",
			"country": "UNITED STATES",
			"email": "[email protected]",
			"telephone": "16502530000",
			"fax": "16506188571",
			"rawText": "Registrant Name: Dns Admin\nRegistrant Organization: Google Inc.\nRegistrant Street: Please contact [email protected], 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway\nRegistrant City: Mountain View\nRegistrant State/Province: CA\nRegistrant Postal Code: 94043\nRegistrant Country: US\nRegistrant Phone: +1.6502530000\nRegistrant Fax: +1.6506188571\nRegistrant Email: [email protected]"
		},
		"administrativeContact": {
			"name": "DNS Admin",
			"organization": "Google Inc.",
			"street1": "1600 Amphitheatre Parkway",
			"city": "Mountain View",
			"state": "CA",
			"postalCode": "94043",
			"country": "UNITED STATES",
			"email": "[email protected]",
			"telephone": "16506234000",
			"fax": "16506188571",
			"rawText": "Admin Name: DNS Admin\nAdmin Organization: Google Inc.\nAdmin Street: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway\nAdmin City: Mountain View\nAdmin State/Province: CA\nAdmin Postal Code: 94043\nAdmin Country: US\nAdmin Phone: +1.6506234000\nAdmin Fax: +1.6506188571\nAdmin Email: [email protected]"
		},
		"technicalContact": {
			"name": "DNS Admin",
			"organization": "Google Inc.",
			"street1": "2400 E. Bayshore Pkwy",
			"city": "Mountain View",
			"state": "CA",
			"postalCode": "94043",
			"country": "UNITED STATES",
			"email": "[email protected]",
			"telephone": "16503300100",
			"fax": "16506181499",
			"rawText": "Tech Name: DNS Admin\nTech Organization: Google Inc.\nTech Street: 2400 E. Bayshore Pkwy\nTech City: Mountain View\nTech State/Province: CA\nTech Postal Code: 94043\nTech Country: US\nTech Phone: +1.6503300100\nTech Fax: +1.6506181499\nTech Email: [email protected]"
		},
		"domainName": "google.com",
		"nameServers": {
			"rawText": "ns1.google.com\nns3.google.com\nns2.google.com\nns4.google.com\n",
			"hostNames": [
				"ns1.google.com",
				"ns3.google.com",
				"ns2.google.com",
				"ns4.google.com"
			],
			"ips": []
		}
		(cut for brevity)
	}
}

Domains that do not have whois

If a domain does not have whois, the result will be null

const result = await whois.lookup('register.bs')

Returns

null

Getting account balance

const result = await whois.getAccountBalance()
console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 2))

Returns the following results:

{
	"balance": "4910",
	"reserve": "5100",
	"monthly_balance": null,
	"monthly_reserve": null,
	"reverse_whois_balance": null,
	"reverse_whois_reserve": null,
	"reverse_whois_monthly_balance": null,
	"reverse_whois_monthly_reserve": null,
	"ba_query_balance": null,
	"ba_query_reserve": null,
	"ra_query_balance": null,
	"ra_query_reserve": null,
	"ds_query_balance": null,
	"ds_query_reserve": null,
	"reverse_ip_balance": null,
	"reverse_ip_reserve": null,
	"reverse_ip_monthly_balance": null,
	"reverse_ip_monthly_reserve": null
}

Setting warning threshhold

const result = whois.setWarnThreshold(500, true, true)
console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 2))

Returns the following results:

{
	"balance": "4910",
	"reserve": "5100",
	"monthly_balance": null,
	"monthly_reserve": null,
	"warn_threshold": "500",
	"warn_threshold_enabled": "\u0001",
	"warn_empty_enabled": "\u0001",
	"reverse_whois_balance": null,
	"reverse_whois_reserve": null,
	"reverse_whois_monthly_balance": null,
	"reverse_whois_monthly_reserve": null,
	"ba_query_balance": null,
	"ba_query_reserve": null,
	"ra_query_balance": null,
	"ra_query_reserve": null,
	"ds_query_balance": null,
	"ds_query_reserve": null,
	"reverse_ip_balance": null,
	"reverse_ip_reserve": null,
	"reverse_ip_monthly_balance": null,
	"reverse_ip_monthly_reserve": null
}

Running the integration tests

Tests expect a config.js file in the module dir or a parent dir with the following contents:

'whoisxmlapi': {
	// From https://www.whoisxmlapi.com/user/management.php
	'username': 'some-username',
	'password': 'some-password',
}

Then run:

mocha

To execute the tests