Free To Use IP-To-Country/City-Database & API
11
Apr
IP Location Tools is a free web service that helps you detect the country/city of an IP number.
It can be used in 2 ways:
- with API (no installs required)
- by downloading the geolocation database
Although downloading the SQL database & running it on our own database servers is much more flexible, keep in mind that there are 1.4 million records in it.
The geolocation database is updated regularly (once a month)
IP Location Tools offers another nice service: fraud detection. Again with an API request, with the zip code you submit, system compares the location of the IP and the area where zipcode belongs to. Can be very helpful, specially for e-commerce websites.
- Tags:
API Geolocation SQL
- Filed under: Extras, Other License, Tools
- 7 Comments
7 Responses for "Free To Use IP-To-Country/City-Database & API"
Maybe I’m not buying every time for me or for my home. So, in my opinion, checking the zip code with the ip, is not a very good idea, but IP LOCATION TOOLS is a great thing.
Free and useful… Great tools, thanks a lot.
Says I’m in Ontario Canada.. I’m definitely nowhere near there.
works fine for me, see implemented on http://www.digizaal.nl/ip2country
Was a tough job to import a 70MB sql file though, ended up downloading bigdump.php which could handle the job, Navicat and phpMyAdmin both crashed.
Seems to have problem with UTF8 charset when city name has some special chars.. anyway great tools!
Says I’m in Utrecht (NL). I think i’m in Groningen…