How do I get a website's IP address using Python 3.x?

Question

I have a string representing a domain name. How can I get the corresponding IP address using Python 3.x? Something like this:

>>> get_ip(\'http://www.st         


        

Answer 1

Python 3.1.3 (r313:86834, Nov 27 2010, 18:30:53) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
>>> import socket
>>> socket.gethostbyname('cool-rr.com')
'174.120.139.162'

Note that:

• gethostbyname() doesn't work with IPv6.
• gethostbyname() uses the C call gethostbanme(), which is deprecated.

If these are problematic, use socket.getaddrinfo() instead.