Basic IP Monitor Example

This sample invokes and displays the results of a DomainTools "IP Monitor" via DXL.

For more information see:
https://www.domaintools.com/resources/api-documentation/ip-monitor/

Prerequisites

Running

To run this sample execute the sample/basic/basic_ip_monitor_example.py script as follows:

python sample/basic/basic_ip_monitor_example.py

The output should appear similar to the following:

{
    "response": {
        "alerts": [],
        "date": "2017-07-18",
        "ip_address": "75.55.53.233",
        "limit": 1000,
        "page": 1,
        "page_count": 0,
        "total": "0"
    }
}

The received results are displayed.

Details

The majority of the sample code is shown below:

# Create the client
with DxlClient(config) as dxl_client:

    # Connect to the fabric
    dxl_client.connect()

    logger.info("Connected to DXL fabric.")

    # Create client wrapper
    client = DomainToolsApiClient(dxl_client)

    # Invoke 'ip_monitor' method on service
    resp_dict = client.ip_monitor("77.55.53.233")

    # Print out the response (convert dictionary to JSON for pretty printing)
    print("Response:\n{}".format(
        MessageUtils.dict_to_json(resp_dict, pretty_print=True)))

Once a connection is established to the DXL fabric, a dxldomaintoolsclient.client.DomainToolsApiClient instance is created which will be used to invoke remote commands on the DomainTools API DXL service.

Next, the dxldomaintoolsclient.client.DomainToolsApiClient.ip_monitor() method is invoked with an IP address.

The final step is to display the contents of the returned dictionary (dict) which contains the results of the ip monitor query.

From the DomainTools IP Monitor documentation:

"The IP Monitor API searches the daily activity of all our monitored TLDs on any given IP address. New, Deleted and Transferred domains records can be queried up to 6 days in the past."