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A simple WHOIS lookup API. |
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-Based on the [Whoiz](https://github.com/okor/whoiz) by [Jason Ormand](http://jasonormand.com/2012/06/10/a-free-whois-api/) application and usging the [Ruby Whois](http://whoisrb.org/) gem. |
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+Based on the [Whoiz](https://github.com/okor/whoiz) application by [Jason Ormand](http://jasonormand.com/2012/06/10/a-free-whois-api/) and using the [Ruby Whois](http://whoisrb.org/) gem. |
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-How it works |
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-====== |
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+## Example Domain Lookup |
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-Access the J1X Whois API and get a JSON response back. |
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+ { |
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+ "domain": "jamesperet.com", |
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+ "owner": "James Peret", |
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+ "registrar": "eNom Inc.", |
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+ "expires_on": "2016-06-07T16:01:00.00Z", |
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+ "update_on": "2015-05-13 00:00:00 -0300", |
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+ "registered?": true, |
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+ "available?": false |
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+ } |
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-Browser |
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+## Accessing the API |
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+Provide a **url** for the API and get a nicely formatted *JSON* response with the domain information. |
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+#### Browser |
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http://whois.j1x.co |
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- http://whois.j1x.co/lookup?url=google.com |
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+ http://whois.j1x.co/lookup.json?url=jamesperet.com |
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+ |
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+#### curl |
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+ curl http://whois.j1x.co/lookup.json?url=jamesperet.com |
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+## Query Options |
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+This are the options for querying the API: |
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-curl |
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+* ```url``` - The domain url that will be queried. Omit the ```http://www.```. |
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+* ```raw=true``` - the *JSON* response will include a *raw* version of the data received by the **registrar** |
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+* ```dev=true``` - Only basic information and the *raw* version will be included in the *JSON* response. No parsing will be done with the data. This is useful for **debugging**. |
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- curl http://whois.j1x.co/lookup.json?url=google.com |
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+Example: |
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+ http://whois.j1x.co/lookup.json?url=google.com&raw=true |
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-# Install |
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-### Clone |
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+## Install |
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+#### Clone |
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git clone git://gitlab.j1x.co/j1x/whois-server.git |
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-### Restrict It |
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+#### Restrict It |
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Edit ```main.rb```: |
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Or use ```*``` to allow any website to access the API. |
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-### Deploy It |
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+#### Deploy It |
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heroku create |
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git push heroku master |
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heroku open |
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-Development Resources |
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-========= |
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+## Domain Support |
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+For now the supported domains are: ```.com```, ```.net```, ```.com.br``` and ```.network```. Support for more domains will come in the future. |
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+The queries for ```.com.br``` domains usually come with limited information because of the registrar's API call allowance. |
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+There is also a bug where some ```.com``` domains return an error (ex: google.com). |
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+## Development Resources |
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-### Tools |
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+#### Tools |
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* [Rubular](http://rubular.com/) - a Ruby regular expression editor |
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-### Articles |
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+#### Articles |
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* [CORS with Angular.js and Sinatra](http://samurails.com/tutorial/cors-with-angular-js-and-sinatra/) |
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* [Introducing rack-cors](http://blog.sourcebender.com/2010/06/09/introducin-rack-cors.html) |