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According to README on github, Ruby Whois can be used "as a standalone library to parse WHOIS records fetched previously and/or from different WHOIS clients."

I know how to use the library to directly perform whois query and parse the returning result. But I cannot find anywhere(stackoverflow included) how I can use this library to parse whois data previously fetched ?

I think it's not important but this is how I get my data, anyway: they are fetched through linux whois command and stored in separate files, each file containing one whois query result.

The manual pages on https://whoisrb.org/ are 404. Even the code on the homepage is outdated thus wrong, and the doc pages provide little information.

I tried to scan the source code on github( https://github.com/weppos/whois-parser and https://github.com/weppos/whois). I tried to find the answer on rubydoc ( https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/whois-parser/Whois/Parser, https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/whois/Whois/Record and some related pages). Both failed, partly because this task is the first time and the reason that I use Ruby.

So could anyone help me? I'm really desperate and I'll definitely appreciate any help.

Shanshan
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Try it like this,

require 'whois-parser'

domain = 'google.com'
data = 'WHOIS DATA THAT YOU ALREADY HAVE'

whois_server = Whois::Server.guess domain
whois_data = [Whois::Record::Part.new(body: data, host: whois_server.host)]
record = Whois::Record.new(whois_server, whois_data)

parser = record.parser
parser.available? #=> false
parser.registered? #=> true
Shakil
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