/IP2Location-C-Library

IP2Location C library enables the user to find the country, region, city, coordinates, zip code, time zone, ISP, domain name, connection type, area code, weather station code, weather station name, mobile, usage types, etc that any IP address or hostname originates from.

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IP2Location C Library

IP2Location is a C library that enables the user to find the country, region or state, district, city, latitude and longitude, ZIP/Postal code, time zone, Internet Service Provider (ISP) or company name, domain name, net speed, area code, weather station code, weather station name, mobile country code (MCC), mobile network code (MNC) and carrier brand, elevation, usage type, address type, IAB category and ASN by IP address or hostname originates from. The library reads the geo location information from IP2Location BIN data file.

In addition to the C Library, the build process will also create an executable called "ip2location" that allows you to directly perform IP geolocation lookups. Please refer to the ip2location CLI documentation for more information. Supported IPv4 and IPv6 address.

For more details, please visit: https://www.ip2location.com/developers/c

Installation

Unix/Linux

autoreconf -i -v --force
./configure
make
make install
cd data
perl ip-country.pl

Debian

curl -LO https://github.com/chrislim2888/IP2Location-C-Library/releases/download/8.6.1/ip2location-8.6.1.deb
sudo dpkg -i ip2location-8.6.1.deb

Ubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ip2location/ip2location
sudo apt update
sudo apt install ip2location

Windows

Execute "vcvarsall.bat". (This file is part of Microsoft Visual C, not ip2location code) 
nmake -f Makefile.win
cd data
perl ip-country.pl

MacOS

autoreconf -i -v --force
export CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/malloc 
./configure
make
make install
cd data
perl ip-country.pl

Testing

cd test
test-IP2Location

Sample BIN Databases

IPv4 BIN vs IPv6 BIN

  • Use the IPv4 BIN file if you just need to query IPv4 addresses.
  • Use the IPv6 BIN file if you need to query BOTH IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

NOTES

If you encountered error while loading shared libraries in linux platform, that could be due to the shared library was saved into usr/local/lib that might not be the default library path. You can run the below command

ldconfig /usr/local/lib

IP2Location CLI

Query an IP address and display the result

ip2location -d [IP2LOCATION BIN DATA PATH] --ip [IP ADDRESS]

Query all IP addresses from an input file and display the result

ip2location -d [IP2LOCATION BIN DATA PATH] -i [INPUT FILE PATH]

Query all IP addresses from an input file and display the result in XML format

ip2location -d [IP2LOCATION BIN DATA PATH] -i [INPUT FILE PATH] --format XML

References

Address Type

Address type is the IP address types as defined in Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). The database return a single character. For the full description, please refer to list below:

  • (A) Anycast - One to the closest
  • (U) Unicast - One to one
  • (M) Multicast - One to multiple
  • (B) Broadcast - One to all
Category

Category is the domain category is based on IAB Tech Lab Content Taxonomy. These categories are comprised of Tier-1 and Tier-2 (if available) level categories widely used in services like advertising, Internet security and filtering appliances. Please refer to https://www.ip2location.com/free/iab-categories for the full list.

Packages for Fedora/Enterprise Linux can be found here

Support

Email: support@ip2location.com.
URL: https://www.ip2location.com