DomainTools' Official Python API
To install the API run
pip install domaintools_api --upgrade
Ideally, within a virtual environment.
To start out create an instance of the API - passing in your credentials
from domaintools import API
api = API(USER_NAME, KEY)
Every API endpoint is then exposed as a method on the API object, with any parameters that should be passed into that endpoint being passed in as method arguments:
api.domain_search('google', exclude='photos')
You can get an overview of every endpoint that you can interact with using the builtin help function:
help(api)
If applicable, native Python looping can be used directly to loop through any results:
for result in api.domain_search('google', exclude='photos'):
print(result['sld'])
You can also use a context manager to ensure processing on the results only occurs if the request is successfully made:
with api.domain_search('google', exclude='photos') as results:
print(results)
For API calls where a single item is expected to be returned, you can directly interact with the result:
profile = api.domain_profile('google.com')
title = profile['website_data']['title']
For any API call where a single type of data is expected you can directly cast to the desired type:
float(api.reputation('google.com')) == 0.0
int(api.reputation('google.com')) == 0
The entire structure returned from DomainTools can be retrieved by doing .data()
while just the actionable response information
can be retrieved by doing .response()
:
api.domain_search('google').data() == {'response': { ... }}
api.domain_search('google').response() == { ... }
You can directly get the html, xml, or json version of the response by calling .(html|xml|json)()
:
html = str(api.domain_search('google').json())
xml = str(api.domain_search('google').xml())
html = str(api.domain_search('google').html())
If any API call is unsuccesfull, one of the exceptions defined in domaintools.exceptions
will be raised:
api.domain_profile('notvalid').data()
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
BadRequestException Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-3-f9e22e2cf09d> in <module>()
----> 1 api.domain_profile('google').data()
/home/tcrosley/projects/external/python_api/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/domaintools-0.0.1-py3.5.egg/domaintools/base_results.py in data(self)
25 self.api._request_session = Session()
26 results = self.api._request_session.get(self.url, params=self.kwargs)
---> 27 self.status = results.status_code
28 if self.kwargs.get('format', 'json') == 'json':
29 self._data = results.json()
/home/tcrosley/projects/external/python_api/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/domaintools-0.0.1-py3.5.egg/domaintools/base_results.py in status(self, code)
44
45 elif code == 400:
---> 46 raise BadRequestException()
47 elif code == 403:
48 raise NotAuthorizedException()
BadRequestException:
the exception will contain the status code and the reason for the exception:
try:
api.domain_profile('notvalid').data()
except Exception as e:
assert e.code == 400
assert 'We could not understand your request' in e.reason['error']['message']
You can get the status code of a response outside of exception handling by doing .status
:
api.domain_profile('google.com').status == 200
If you are running on Python 3.5+ the DomainTools' API automatically supports async usage:
search_results = await api.domain_search('google')
There is built-in support for async context managers:
async with api.domain_search('google') as search_results:
# do things
And direct async for loops:
async for result in api.domain_search('google'):
print(result)
All async operations can safely be intermixed with non async ones - with optimal performance achieved if the async call is done first:
profile = api.domain_profile('google.com')
await profile
title = profile['website_data']['title']
Immediately after installing domaintools_api
with pip, a domaintools
command line client will become available to you:
domaintools --help
To use - simply pass in the api_call you would like to make along with the parameters that it takes and your credentials:
domaintools domain_search google --max_length 10 -u $TEST_USER -k $TEST_KEY
Optionally, you can specify the desired format (html, xml, json, or list) of the results:
domaintools domain_search google --max_length 10 -u $TEST_USER -k $TEST_KEY -f html
To avoid having to type in your API key repeatedly, you can specify them in ~/.dtapi
separated by a new line:
API_USER
API_KEY
Please see the supported versions document for the DomainTools Python support policy.