whois-stats

Rationale

All Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) publish statistics that describe the state of the network resources they manage. These statistics are updated daily. whois-stats allows you to access these statistics as a stream of JSON objects.

Usage

var stats = require('whois-stats');

stats.statsFromFTP(stats.APNIC_LATEST, function (err, stream) {
    if (err) throw err;
    stream.on('entry', function (entry) {
        // entry is something like:
        // {"registry":"apnic","cc":"JP","type":"ipv4","start":"202.11.0.0","value":"256",
        //  "date":"19940413","status":"allocated","extensions":[],"_type":"allocation"}
    });
});

Why should I care?

• Quantify IPv4 exhaustion
• Diff for new allocations
• Identify conflicts
• Store to object db