Extracts the top level domain (TLD) from the URL given.
Project description
Extracts the top level domain (TLD) from the URL given. List of TLD names is taken from Mozilla.
Optionally raises exceptions on non-existing TLDs or silently fails (if fail_silently argument is set to True). Knows about active and inactive TLDs. If only active TLDs shall be matched against, active_only argument shall be set to True (default - False).
Installation
Latest stable version on PyPI:
$ pip install tldLatest development version:
$ pip install -e hg+http://bitbucket.org/barseghyanartur/tld#egg=tldUsage example
To get the top level domain name from the URL given:
from tld import get_tld
print get_tld("http://www.google.co.uk")
# 'google.co.uk'
print get_tld("http://www.google.idontexist", fail_silently=True)
# NoneIf you wish, you could get the result as an object:
from tld import get_tld
res = get_tld("http://some.subdomain.google.co.uk", as_object=True)
print res
# 'google.co.uk'
print res.subdomain
# 'some.subdomain'
print res.domain
# 'google'
print res.suffix
# 'co.uk'
print res.tld
# 'google.co.uk'To update/sync the tld names with the most recent version run the following from your terminal:
$ update-tld-namesor simply do:
from tld.utils import update_tld_names
update_tld_names()Troubleshooting
If somehow domain names listed here are not recognised, make sure you have the most recent version of TLD names in your virtual environment:
$ update-tld-namesLicense
MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
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For any issues contact me at the e-mail given in the Author section.
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