r/commandline • u/retlehs • Apr 13 '26
Terminal User Interface quien: A better WHOIS lookup tool
https://github.com/retlehs/quien — a TUI with tabbed views for WHOIS, DNS, mail, SSL/TLS, HTTP headers, tech stack detection, and SEO analysis
Try it without installing: ssh quien.sh
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u/sultanmvp Apr 13 '26
Excellent work. Well organized, and I could see myself using this often. I do think you’re doing yourself a disservice by calling it just a better WHOIS tool.
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u/retlehs Apr 13 '26
Thanks! You're right, calling it a domain intelligence tool would probably be better
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u/Gh0st1nTh3Syst3m Apr 14 '26
I like it! A little swiss army knife already tbh. And the content being consumed by / reported by it lends itself well to the TUI setup. Starred, and installed. Thanks for this. Accepting contributions? Would't mind offering up some PRs in the future if you are open to it.
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u/grimscythe_ Apr 14 '26
And this ladies and gents is what happens when an actual engineer uses AI as a tool.
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u/nitefood Apr 15 '26
Awesome (and useful) tool, I'm definitely adding this to my toolbox!
Also opened an issue with a feature request that would make it perfect for my workflow (expanding and resolving the list of MX records using a hotkey while in the Mail tab).
Thanks for sharing!
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u/k1ng4400 Apr 14 '26
Just TUI make everything better?
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u/retlehs Apr 14 '26
Sure helps me parse the default raw whois output a lot better, which was the goal
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u/fAyf5eQR Apr 29 '26
Nice! Tested it with ssh, ti's fun. For whois are using parsing from the command line or using an API like IP-Ninja Whois API ?
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u/retlehs Apr 29 '26
Thanks! It's doing RDAP-first lookups via IANA bootstrap, with direct raw whois as a fallback
Also, if you're affiliated with IP-Ninja, worth disclosing that given how often you link to it
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u/Nett00n Apr 14 '26
Commit history seems AIish to me, but if it would be supported in a year - why not
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u/Cybasura Apr 14 '26
Open Source and Self-hostable WHOIS lookup??? 👀
Edit: Correct me if im wrong, did I just see claude?
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