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DNS Lookup API

Query live DNS records (A, AAAA, MX, TXT, NS, CNAME) for any domain.

Request Headers

Name	Required	Description
`X-RapidAPI-Key`	required	Your RapidAPI key. Get one free.
`X-RapidAPI-Host`	required	`dns-lookup.p.rapidapi.com`

Endpoints

GET /v1/dnslookup

Look up live DNS records for a domain

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Default	Constraints
`domain`	string	required	—	matches ^(?=.{1,253}$)([A-Za-z0-9]([A-Za-z0-9-]{0,61}[A-Za-z0-9])?\.)+[A-Za-z]{2,63}$
`type`	string	optional	A	matches A\|AAAA\|MX\|TXT\|NS\|CNAME

Code Examples

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://dns-lookup.p.rapidapi.com/v1/dnslookup?domain=example' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: dns-lookup.p.rapidapi.com'

const url = "https://dns-lookup.p.rapidapi.com/v1/dnslookup?domain=example";
const options = {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "x-rapidapi-host": "dns-lookup.p.rapidapi.com"
  }
};

const response = await fetch(url, options);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

url = "https://dns-lookup.p.rapidapi.com/v1/dnslookup"

querystring = {"domain": "example"}

headers = {
    "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "x-rapidapi-host": "dns-lookup.p.rapidapi.com"
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=querystring)

print(response.json())

GET /v1/dnslookup/types

List all supported DNS record types.

Code Examples

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://dns-lookup.p.rapidapi.com/v1/dnslookup/types' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --header 'x-rapidapi-host: dns-lookup.p.rapidapi.com'

const url = "https://dns-lookup.p.rapidapi.com/v1/dnslookup/types";
const options = {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "x-rapidapi-host": "dns-lookup.p.rapidapi.com"
  }
};

const response = await fetch(url, options);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

url = "https://dns-lookup.p.rapidapi.com/v1/dnslookup/types"

headers = {
    "x-rapidapi-key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "x-rapidapi-host": "dns-lookup.p.rapidapi.com"
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.json())

Interactive Example

dns-lookup

$ GET /v1/dnslookup?domain=example.com&type=A
{"domain":"example.com","type":"A","records":["93.184.216.34"]}

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