Free IP GeoLocation/GeoIp API

A free REST API to get location information for IP addresses.

This project is open source. Setup your own instance if you like.

Sourcecode at GitHub

Location data for your current IP address
City Columbus
Country United States (US)
Latitute 39.9625
Longitude -83.0061
Time zone America/New_York

API Documentation

Requests

All requests have to be HTTP GET requests in the following schema:

http://geoip.nekudo.com/api/{ip}/{language}/{type}

Parameters

ip optional Valid IP address in IPv4 or IPv6 format.
language optional Two character language code like en or de.
type optional Possible values are short to get a response conataining only most relevant data or full to get a response containing all available data.

Responses

By default all responses are JSON encoded strings.
It is also possible to get JSONP responses for direct usage in javascripts. To get a JSONP response a callback function has to be provided within the request using the ?callback= parameter.

Examples

http://geoip.nekudo.com/api/8.8.8.8
http://geoip.nekudo.com/api/2a00:a200:0:f::888
http://geoip.nekudo.com/api/8.8.8.8/full
http://geoip.nekudo.com/api/87.79.99.25/de
<script>
function foo(data) {
    document.write("City: ", data.city);
    document.write("Country: ", data.country.name);
    document.write("Latitude: ", data.location.latitude);
    document.write("Longitude: ", data.location.longitude);
}
</script>
<script src="http://geoip.nekudo.com/api?callback=foo"></script>

SSL

This service is also available via https.

Limits

The API follows a fair use policy. There are no limits by default but if the service is abused your IP may get blocked.