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Running 'Whois' behind proxy

Linux command 'whois' allows for retrieving data about particular domain age. Unfortunately, there is a limit on the number of operations that can be performed. I was wondering if it is possible to use different IP addresses via Crawlera. Is there any solution?


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'whois' runs on TCP protocol, Crawlera is an HTTP proxy so it's not going to work. You can:

A) Use something like http://whois.domaintools.com/ or any other HTTP 'whois' service and scrape the results

B) Use a SOCKS proxy.


See: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/367409/how-do-you-use-proxy-with-the-whois-command

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'whois' runs on TCP protocol, Crawlera is an HTTP proxy so it's not going to work. You can:

A) Use something like http://whois.domaintools.com/ or any other HTTP 'whois' service and scrape the results

B) Use a SOCKS proxy.


See: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/367409/how-do-you-use-proxy-with-the-whois-command

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