Polite Mass-"Scriptable"-Domainer

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PHP script meant to be run on the CLI; currently only works on *NIX based systems, or systems with the "WHOIS" application.

Politely waits 5 seconds between iterations - is this enough? should it be more? I'm not familiar with robot-netiquette.

#! /usr/bin/php
<?php
        $disableSleepOutput = true;
        $debug = false;

        $pattern = $argv[1];
        $end = 'z';
        for($i='a';$i<'z';$i++) {
                debugPrint("New \$i Iteration: $i\n");
                for($b='a';$b<'z';$b++) {
                        debugPrint("New \$b Iteration: $b\n");
                        $test = str_replace("*", $i, $pattern);
                        $test = str_replace("%", $b, $test);

                        echo "Checking $test: ";
                        echo checkWhois($test) ? "Available." : "Registered.";
                        echo "\n";

                        sleepSmart(5);

                        if(!stristr($pattern, "%")) $b='y';     // HACK HACK HACK, this entire nested $i, $b crap is a hack
                }
        }





function debugPrint($z) {
        global $debug;
        if($debug) print $z;
}



function sleepSmart($seconds) {
        global $disableSleepOutput;
        if($disableSleepOutput) { sleep($seconds); } else {
                echo "Sleeping for $seconds seconds: ";
                for($i=1;$i<=$seconds;$i++) {
                        echo $i . "... ";
                        sleep(1);
                }
                echo "\n";
        }
}

function checkWhois($domain) {
        ob_start();
                system("whois " . $domain);
                $cntns = ob_get_contents();
        ob_end_clean();

        if((stristr($cntns, "no match") || stristr($cntns,"not found")) && !stristr($cntns, "Name Server: ns"))
                return true;
        else
                return false;
}

?>

It's currently a bit of a hack, REP++ to anyone who cleans it up or adds functionality.

Aha! So I found my old code for this, so I quickly hacked up version two

#! /usr/bin/php
<?

        $disableSleepOutput = true;

        $vowelArray = array('a','e','i','o','u');

        $base = $argv[1];

        if($base == "help") { echo "base start end [v|d]\n v = vowels only, d = debug mode"; }
        if($base == "debug") { print_r($argv); print_r($vowelArray); }
        $start = $argv[2];
        $end = $argv[3];
        $arg = '';
        $arg = @$argv[4];

        if($arg == "v") {
                $start=0;
                $end=count($vowelArray);
        }

        for($i=$start;$i<$end;$i++) {
                if($arg == 'd') { echo $i . " of " . $end . "\n"; }
                $use = $i;
                if($arg=="v") {
                        $use = $vowelArray[$i];
                }
                $query = str_replace("*", $use, $base);
                echo "$query: ";
                echo checkWhois($query) ? "Available   " : "Registered   ";
                echo "\n";
                sleepSmart(5);

        }

function debugPrint($z) {
        global $debug;
        if($debug) print $z;
}



function sleepSmart($seconds) {
        global $disableSleepOutput;
        if($disableSleepOutput) { sleep($seconds); } else {
                echo "Sleeping for $seconds seconds: ";
                for($i=1;$i<=$seconds;$i++) {
                        echo $i . "... ";
                        sleep(1);
                }
                echo "\n";
        }
}

function checkWhois($domain) {
        ob_start();
                system("whois -H -F " . $domain);
                $cntns = ob_get_contents();
        ob_end_clean();

        if((stristr($cntns, "no match") || stristr($cntns,"not found")) && !stristr($cntns, "Name Server: ns"))
                return true;
        else
                return false;
}

?>

It works a little differently, pass it something like this:

`d**main.com a z`

and it'll loop from a to z and replace ** with those characters.

The WHOIS servers seem to hate this through. Any solutions?