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Attributeerror: 'Module' Object Has No Attribute 'Whois'

Robert Thorne • • 1 min read
Attributeerror: 'Module' Object Has No Attribute 'Whois'

I tried to execute this code:

import whois
w = whois.whois('webscraping.com')
print w

And I got the error above. Why?

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2 Answers

Wrong library, solution is to remove old one and install new : 

pip uninstall whois 
pip install python-whois
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Try this instead:

w = whois.query('webscraping.com')
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