Get IP address of url in python?

Question

Possible Duplicate:
How can I do DNS lookups in Python, including referring to /etc/hosts?

Im using Python 2.7 and im creating a iptracer with an online API.

And i want the user to have the option to type e.g google.com, http://google.com or www.google.com and then get the ip address of that and add the ip to a variable.

Is it any links or other help anyone can give me?

-stian

Solution 1

>>> import socket
>>> print socket.gethostbyname('google.com')
74.125.236.52

Solution 2

You can use gethostbyname_ex() function located in socket module http://docs.python.org/library/socket.html

Comments

[aderchox]

On Python 3.7 it doesn't work: socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known

[volkoshkursk]

@aderchox on python 3.7 I've successfully run following: import socket print(socket.gethostbyname('google.com'))