Dns Lookup Actor

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Dns Lookup Actor

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An Apify Actor that performs DNS lookups for given domain names and record types, with optional custom DNS server support.

Pricing

from $0.01 / 1,000 results

Rating

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Developer

Balasai Sigireddy

Maintained by Community

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Monthly active users

6 days ago

Last modified

Included features

DNS Record Lookup: Query various DNS record types (A, AAAA, MX, CNAME, TXT, NS, SOA, PTR, SRV, CAA, DS, DNSKEY)
Custom DNS Server: Optionally specify a DNS server (e.g., 8.8.8.8) for lookups
Structured Output: Results stored in Apify dataset with name, type, value, and TTL
Error Handling: Graceful handling of NXDOMAIN, no answers, and other DNS errors
Apify Integration: Built with Apify SDK for seamless cloud deployment

Input

domain (string, required): The domain name to lookup (e.g., example.com)
record_type (string, optional): DNS record type, default "A"
dns_server (string, optional): Custom DNS server IP address

Output

Dataset containing objects with:

name: Domain name
type: Record type
value: Record value
ttl: Time to live

Usage

Set input in storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json
Run locally: apify run
View results in storage/datasets/default/

Example

Input:

{
  "domain": "google.com",
  "record_type": "A",
  "dns_server": "8.8.8.8"
}

Output:

{
  "name": "google.com",
  "type": "A",
  "value": "142.250.195.78",
  "ttl": 190
}

Deploy to Apify

Connect Git repository to Apify

If you've created a Git repository for the project, you can easily connect to Apify:

Go to Actor creation page
Click on Link Git Repository button

Push project on your local machine to Apify

You can also deploy the project on your local machine to Apify without the need for the Git repository.

Log in to Apify. You will need to provide your Apify API Token to complete this action.
```
$apify login
```
Deploy your Actor. This command will deploy and build the Actor on the Apify Platform. You can find your newly created Actor under Actors -> My Actors.
```
$apify push
```

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