IP Geolocation API | Accurate IP address location | WhoisXML API

IP Geolocation API lets you check IP location accurately

Our IP Geolocation API service allows you to identify your web visitors and users’ geographical location. IP location helps customize web experiences, prevent fraud, ensure regulatory compliance, and more.

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99.5%of IP addresses in use
291,000+Locations covered
235,000+ISPs
52,000+Satisfied customers

Our IP address location API retrieves:

  • IP geolocation details

    For the given IP address, we retrieve its two-letter country code from ISO 3166, region, city, and postal code.

  • Latitude and longitude

    Get the precise geographic location of the current IP address.

  • Time zone offset by UTC

    Determine the time zone to which the IP address belongs in the “+10:00” format.

  • GeoNames ID

    Assign a location identifier for the IP address according to the GeoNames database.

  • ISP

    Find out which Internet Service Provider is used by your visitor.

  • AS details

    Identify the network that is used by the current IP address. Get its domain name, AS number (ASN), and route.

  • ASN type

    Find out what type of network the IP address belongs to—cable/digital subscriber line (DSL)/ISP, content, educational/research, enterprise, etc.

  • Associated domains

    Get the array of the domain names associated with the IP address.

  • Connection type new

    Find out what type of connection is used by the IP address—modem, mobile, broadband, or company.

What is IP Geolocation API?

IP geolocation APIs are a way for users to gather IP location data from geolocation databases via an application programming interface (API). Developers can integrate APIs as a building block to already existing applications and systems using different programming languages.

Practical usage

Market research

Market research

Easily turn your web server access logs or other server data containing IP addresses into valuable business information. This will let you understand users’ needs better and help you build comprehensive customer profiles and suitable plans.

Content personalization

Give your users beautiful, tailored experiences based on their geolocation.

Demographic targeting

If you know where your customer lives, you can target ads based on demographic data related to that area.

Customize marketing campaigns

Adjust your marketing strategies when targeting a specific location. Understanding where your visitors connect from can result in increased relevance, response, and revenue.

Trend analysis

Obtain insights about your core market demographics and discover new hidden prospects and emerging trends.

Security protection

Security protection

Find visitors from IP addresses belonging to certain countries or regions associated with cybercrime and block them before any damage is done.

Cybercrime prevention

Data from previously revealed attacks or attempts can be correlated with those of current traffic to preempt and prevent an attack.

Detect identity theft and online fraud

Compare a visitor’s IP geolocation information with known customer data to detect online fraud and identity theft.

Prevent phishing attacks

Tie email addresses to a geographical location to check and filter malicious entities.

Intrusion detection

Analyze cyberattacks and identify risky situations by inspecting the geolocation of bad actors.

Law enforcement

Identify abusers and stop them from causing harm in the future.

Regulatory compliance

Filter your traffic to avoid doing business with organizations based in restricted areas.

Online banking security

Card companies, banks, and other providers can screen fraud & maintain the security of online transactions by continuously monitoring transaction data for regional discrepancies to reveal fraud.

Online banking security
Social research

Social research

Find relevant trends and understand their implications in several disciplines such as social sciences, including geography, demography, and the sociology of networks.

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Get exhaustive and pertinent IP location data with IP Geolocation API

  • We obtain data from several sources aided by legal agreements with a multitude of large ISPs.

  • Our IP geolocation database gets a new stream of hundreds of thousands of records every day, assuring you of the latest information.

  • We assemble and provide IPv4 and IPv6 data for all of our IP geolocation products.

  • We do all we can for our users. That’s why our database now has a 99.5% IP address coverage.

Ease development work using our geoIP API

Coding IP Geolocation API to fit your platform is easy when you use the client libraries we made available.

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