Python Website Scanner Tutorial - 3 - IP Address

[Chiab]

It can be done like this:

from socket import gethostbyname

def get_ip_address(url)
return gethostbyname(url)

Hope it helps!

[yevheniilytvynenko]

You can simply use "dig +short " instead of "host ". That'll give you just an IP

[siddharthkumarsah]

If you are on Windows and Python, here's one east way to do it:

import socket

def get_ip_address(url):
results = socket.gethostbyname(url)
return results

[lhamil]

I would have used a regular expression. Just search for and return the first match.

[mohhindersuresh]

You could replace your results line with this:

results =

[abeerhussain]

we can also use socket.gethostbyname() to get ip address

[tyubnm]

"has address" will not exist for another languages :)

[baysunny]

'host' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
what should i do??

[ultimategameplay]

So doing this on windows with ping and its sort of the same. Running into the problem of trying to truncate the final ~22 characters from the results. Any suggestions??

Edit: I got it to work.

[etharshrouf]

another way using regular expression
import os, re
def get_ip_address(url):
command="host "+url

pattern="\d{1, 3}\.\d{1, 3}\.\d{1, 3}\.\d{1, 3}"
regex = re.compile(pattern)
test = regex.findall(process)
for i in test:
return(i)

[mathewscolari]

Im getting an error at compile saying that the list index is out of range.

[carson]

I get
'host ' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

[malinwolfhess]

import socket

# a simple example

def main():

# get fully qualified domain name
ip = raw_input('Enter url ')

fqdn =

print fqdn

if __name__ == '__main__':
main()

[vashisht]

Folks with socket module you have a functioned named gethostbyname()....you can use that to get IP address ...if it does not work you very well have becky videos...enjoy and keep coding

[alaska]

not showing any results, no errors.. :( pls help