How to query the RIPE API for JSON

Question

How do you get the RIPE REST API to give you in JSON the same data you'd get from the whois command on the command line?

Eg. Something like the output of

whois 1.1.1.1

Answer 1

Here's how to do this in Python

from ipwhois import IPWhois
from pprint import pprint

ip = "1.1.1.1"
obj = IPWhois(ip)
results = obj.lookup_rdap(depth=1)
pprint(results)