Web service to GeoIP

Question

Is there a reliable web-service that provides an API to turn an IP address into a location, i.e. city, region, country. Willing to pay, but need something solid and reliable.

For a list of all free IP lookup services, you can refer to my answer for http://stackoverflow.com/questions/391979/get-client-ip-using-just-javascript — thdoan, Feb 01 '16 at 04:56

Ben Dowling · Answer 1 · 2016-04-06T04:58:37.350

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My service, http://ipinfo.io includes location information, hostname, network owner and some other details:

$ curl ipinfo.io/8.8.8.8
{
  "ip": "8.8.8.8",
  "hostname": "google-public-dns-a.google.com",
  "loc": "37.385999999999996,-122.0838",
  "org": "AS15169 Google Inc.",
  "city": "Mountain View",
  "region": "CA",
  "country": "US",
  "phone": 650
}

Here's a PHP example:

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$details = json_decode(file_get_contents("http://ipinfo.io/{$ip}"));
echo $details->city; // -> "Mountain View"

edited Apr 06 '16 at 04:58

answered Jul 25 '13 at 17:05

Ben Dowling

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Great tool! Ideal for me, free and no additional requirements like "special note on my own website". Thanks dude! ;) – Piotr Apr 17 '14 at 10:31
It doesn't support https unfortunately. – technophyle Jul 27 '17 at 02:54
It does, for free – Ben Dowling Jul 27 '17 at 03:40

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 18 '14 at 08:09

i found these free Geo-Ip services:

http://freegeoip.net

http://www.telize.com

These are two very fast demo-installations (mine):

http://bric.lepus.uberspace.de:61165

https://oo.bootes.uberspace.de

please contact the me, if you like to implement the service long-term.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 24 '15 at 14:49

Depending on how much information you want returned back to you and the amount of traffic you're getting. You can use the free services provided by Maxmind GeoIPCityLite, FreeGeoIP is pretty good and ipinfodb..

I'm starting my own GeoIP Service called http://www.snoopi.io if you want to give it a try.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 05 '14 at 19:17

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About ipinfo.io, it's not complete free! Check it:

"You are limited to 1,000 API requests per day. If you need to make more requests, or need SSL support, see our paid plans."

answered Feb 05 '14 at 19:17

Thales P

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Yeah. It was at the time. I've updated the other answer to remove that. – Ben Dowling Mar 24 '14 at 16:44
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It isn't really an answer - it should have been a comment on the other answer. – Ben Dowling Mar 25 '14 at 02:21

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 21 '15 at 14:55

I can personally (due to my company) suggest Netacuity - it's really reliable (and I would like to underline really), but I don't know if they offer an API (or you need to download/update manually).

Alternatively, you could have a look at Maxmind, the "tool" behind FreeGeoIp.net (that is using Maxmind's GeoLite2), just more precise, with more data, and costing 0.01$ per request or so - the good thing is that you can cache the results.

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 23 '15 at 03:02

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http://www.ipinfodb.com has free geolocation API. It has rate limit at 2 queries per second.

http://api.ipinfodb.com/v3/ip-city/?key=your_api_key&ip=74.125.45.100

answered Oct 23 '15 at 03:02

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