AttributeError: module 'whois' has no attribute 'whois'

Question

I am running my ML code and getting this error-

    Enter website name=> www.google.com
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Dphishing.py", line 12, in <module>
    p2.category2(website)
  File "C:\xampp\htdocs\Detect_Phishing_Website\p2.py", line 8, in category2
    page = whois.whois(website)
AttributeError: module 'whois' has no attribute 'whois'

My code is:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import p1
import p2
import p3
import p4
import pandas as pd
#import numpy as np

website = str(input("Enter website name=> "))
p1.category1(website)
p2.category2(website)
p3.category3(website)
p4.category4(website)


read = pd.read_csv(r'C:\Users\Anushree\Desktop\college\4th year project\Detect_Phishing_Website\phishing5.txt',header = None,sep = ',')
read = read.iloc[:,:-1].values
dataset = pd.read_csv(r'C:\Users\Anushree\Desktop\college\4th year project\Detect_Phishing_Website\Training Dataset1.csv')
X = dataset.iloc[:,:-1].values  
y = dataset.iloc[:,-1].values

from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
X_train,X_test,y_train,y_test = train_test_split(X,y,test_size = 0.2,random_state = 1001)

from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestRegressor
regressor = RandomForestRegressor(n_estimators = 10,criterion = "mse",random_state = 2)
regressor.fit(X_train,y_train)                             

y_pred = regressor.predict(X_test)


from sklearn.model_selection import cross_val_score
accuracy = cross_val_score(estimator = regressor,X=X_train,y=y_train,cv = 5)
accuracy.mean()
accuracy.std()


Detect_phishing_website = regressor.predict(read)

if Detect_phishing_website == 1:
    print("legitimate website")
elif Detect_phishing_website == 0:
    print ('suspicious website')
else:
    print('phishing website')

The code of file p2.py is:

import re
import whois

def category2(website):
        
    file_obj = open(r'C:\Users\Anushree\Desktop\college\4th year project\Detect_Phishing_Website\phishing5.txt','a')
    #8 Domain Registration Length
    page = whois.whois(website)
    if type(page.expiration_date) == list:
        domain_reg_len = (page.expiration_date[0] - page.creation_date[0]).days
    else:
        domain_reg_len = (page.expiration_date - page.creation_date).days
    #print domain_reg_len
    if domain_reg_len <= 365:
        file_obj.write('-1,')
    else:
        file_obj.write('1,')
    #9 Using Non-Standard Port 
    match_port = re.search(':[//]+[a-z]+.[a-z0-9A-Z]+.[a-zA-Z]+:([0-9#]*)',website)
    if match_port:
        print (match_port.group())
        if match_port.group(1) == '#':#represent multiple ports are active on url
            file_obj.write('-1,')
        else:
            file_obj.write('1,')
    else:
        file_obj.write('1,')
    file_obj.close()

I have already tried uninstalling whois and then reinstalling python-whois using the command pip install python-whois. But that hasn't helped with the error.

How can I understand what is going wrong, and how I can correct it?

Answer 1

Reason for your error:
You have not installed the whois command on your system.
Ubuntu: Use sudo apt install whois
Windows: Download and install from here

First uninstall any whois module with pip uninstall whois and pip uninstall python-whois

Solution 1: Use python-whois

Install python-whois with pip install python-whois
Then make sure you already installed the whois command on your machine.
Then your code should work.

Solution 2: Use whois

Install whois command on your machine. If you are on ubuntu sudo apt install whois will do.
Install whois module with pip install whois,
Then use whois.query() instead of whois.whois() in your code.

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