You can access the DNS and WHOIS Lookup programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {}
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("tropical_quince/dns-whois-lookup").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
15for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

DNS WHOIS Lookup - Domain Information Tool API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use DNS and WHOIS Lookup API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

DNS and WHOIS Lookup API in JavaScript

DNS and WHOIS Lookup API through CLI

DNS and WHOIS Lookup OpenAPI definition

DNS and WHOIS Lookup API

Dns Lookup API

vivid_astronaut/dns-lookup

Fabio Suizu

Domain Checker - WHOIS & DNS

vivid_astronaut/domain-checker

Check domain availability, WHOIS records, DNS records, and SSL certificates. Supports bulk domain checking.

Fabio Suizu

Domain Whois Lookup

technicaldost/domain-whois-lookup

Technical Dost Solutions

Dns Lookup Actor

balathon/dns-lookup-actor

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

Balasai Sigireddy

DNS Lookup - Forward and Reverse (A, MX, TXT, DMARC, PTR)

superlativetech/dns-lookup

Quickly retrieve DNS records (A, AAAA, MX, CNAME, TXT, DMARC, NS, SOA) or perform reverse DNS lookups. Ideal for DNS audits, cybersecurity analysis, competitor intelligence, sales & marketing outreach, tech stack identification, domain monitoring, and DNS troubleshooting.

Superlative

DNS lookup API: Intelligence & Security Analyzer

njoylab/apify-dns

A powerful DNS intelligence tool that performs multi-record lookups, global propagation checks, reverse DNS, SSL/TLS inspection, email security analysis, and rich metadata extraction all in one automated workflow

njoylab

5.0

DNS Lookup | Scrape Domain Records & Security Intelligence

datascoutapi/dns-lookup

DNS lookup scrapes 22 data points including 10 DNS records (A, AAAA, MX, TXT, NS, CNAME, SOA, SRV, PTR, CAA) + email security analysis ( SPF/DKIM/DMARC), SSL certificate checker, domain monitoring. Processes 100 domains per batch with security scoring.

halam

Whois

vivid_astronaut/whois

Lookup domain registration info. Registrar, dates, nameservers.

Fabio Suizu

Domain DNS Propagation Checker

tropical_quince/domain-dns-propagation

Check DNS propagation across global servers. Verify DNS changes have propagated worldwide.

Donny Nguyen

DNS Extractor

juansgaitan/dns-extractor

Gets the IP addresses & *Reverse DNS from an input url. *Reverse DNS is IP address to domain name mapping - the opposite of forward (normal) DNS which maps domain names to IP addresses.