Date time is not parsed properly

[buggymaytricks]

When i try to fetch creation date or expiration date, its giving it in very different format

Can someone solve this problem for me please?

[richardpenman]

You will need to provide more information. Which website? What is the command used? What is the downloaded text?

[maloleyr]

I'm working on a script that incorporates this tool and I'm getting the same results. However it appears to happen quite randomly. For example if I feed my script a list of domains (3) then only one has that weird result.

w = whois.whois(domain)
# We have data so organize it and write it to a report.
report = os.path.join(output, f"internet domain registration - {domain}.txt")

if os.path.exists(report): # Delete if we have an existing file.
        os.remove(report)
   
write_report = open(report, "a", encoding="utf-8")
write_report.write(f"Domain Name: {w.domain_name}\n")
write_report.write(f"Registrar: {w.registrar}\n")
write_report.write(f"Registrar WHOIS Server: {w.whois_server}\n")
write_report.write(f"Registrar URL: {w.registrar_url}\n")
write_report.write(f"Updated Date: {w.updated_date}\n")
write_report.write(f"Creation Date: {w.creation_date}\n")
write_report.write(f"Registry Expiry Date: {w.expiration_date}\n")
write_report.write(f"DNSSEC: {w.dnssec}\n")
write_report.close()

Otherwise my reports come out as expected but randomly one or more of the date fields comes back with "[datetime.datetime(2023, 12, 16, 23, 57, 20), datetime.datetime(2024, 8, 18, 3, 27, 29)]"

Maybe a timing issue?

[maloleyr]

I've been doing some more testing and it looks like this happens when, for whatever reason, the WHOIS response for that field has more than one response.

The following is a snippet of the output of python-whois for microsoft.com

{
  "domain_name": "MICROSOFT.COM",
  "registrar": "MarkMonitor, Inc.",
  "registrar_url": "http://www.markmonitor.com",
  "reseller": null,
  "whois_server": "whois.markmonitor.com",
  "referral_url": null,
  "updated_date": [
    "2023-08-18 16:15:54",
    "2023-08-18 16:15:54+00:00"
  ],
  "creation_date": [
    "1991-05-02 04:00:00",
    "1991-05-02 04:00:00+00:00"
  ],
  "expiration_date": [
    "2025-05-03 04:00:00",
    "2025-05-03 00:00:00+00:00"
  ],

When the "updated_date" and similar fields have more than one response we get the parsing issue.

[buggymaytricks]

You will need to provide more information. Which website? What is the command used? What is the downloaded text?

import whois domain = input("Enter domain : ") whois_info = whois.whois(domain) whois_results = "" whois_results += f"[+] Creation date : {whois_info.creation_date}\n" whois_results += f"[+] Expiration date : {whois_info.expiration_date}\n" print(whois_results)