How can I get DNS records for a domain in python?

Your other option is pydns but the last release is as of 2008 so dnspython is probably a better bet (I only mention this in case dnspython doesn't float your boat).


You can use python's socket library to get the DNS records from ip address or domain name

import socket

# if ip address is available
DNS_record = socket.gethostbyaddr("66.249.65.189")

# if domain name is available
DNS_record = socket.gethostbyname("google.com")

For more info on this go to this page https://docs.python.org/2/library/socket.html#:~:text=gethostbyaddr()%20supports%20both%20IPv4%20and%20IPv6.&text=Translate%20a%20socket%20address%20sockaddr,or%20a%20numeric%20port%20number.


Try the dnspython library:

  • http://www.dnspython.org/

You can see some examples here:

  • https://www.dnspython.org/examples/

A simple example from http://c0deman.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/find-nameservers-of-domain-name-python/ :

import dns.resolver
 
domain = 'google.com'
answers = dns.resolver.resolve(domain,'NS')
for server in answers:
    print(server.target)

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