API Documentation

Overview

This API service is designed for quick and easy visitors IP geolocation integration into your script or website. Get rid of setting up local GeoIP libraries and forget about regular updates. Our neural network analyzes dozens of sources and almost real-time updates the database.

Data formats

• JSON
• XML
• CSV

JSON endpoint

You can call the API by sending HTTP GET requests to http://ipwhois.app/json/{IP}

{IP} can be an IPv4 or IPv6 address, or none to use the current IP address.

Example

You can edit this query and experiment with the options

{
  "ip": "8.8.4.4",
  "success": true,
  "type": "IPv4",
  "continent": "North America",
  "continent_code": "NA",
  "country": "United States",
  "country_code": "US",
  "country_flag": "https://cdn.ipwhois.io/flags/us.svg",
  "country_capital": "Washington",
  "country_phone": "+1",
  "country_neighbours": "CA,MX,CU",
  "region": "California",
  "city": "Mountain View",
  "latitude": 37.3860517,
  "longitude": -122.0838511,
  "asn": "AS15169",
  "org": "Google LLC",
  "isp": "Google LLC",
  "timezone": "America/Los_Angeles",
  "timezone_name": "Pacific Standard Time",
  "timezone_dstOffset": 0,
  "timezone_gmtOffset": -28800,
  "timezone_gmt": "GMT -8:00",
  "currency": "US Dollar",
  "currency_code": "USD",
  "currency_symbol": "$",
  "currency_rates": 1,
  "currency_plural": "US dollars",
  "completed_requests": 0
}

Returned data

The API can return the following fields and values

Specify response fields

You can restrict API results to specific data fields if you don’t need to keep track of all the data. In this case, you need to add the GET objects parameter to the API request's URL and set a specific field or fields list with a comma.

For example: objects=country,city,timezone Run request

JSONP Callback

API supports callback function (JSONP). Simply append the API callback parameter to your API request URL and set it to your function name.

For example: callback=getIPinfo Run request

Localization

Localized city, region, country and continent can be requested by setting the GET parameter lang to one of the following:

Usage limits

You can use our API for free up to 10,000 requests per month. See our pricing details if you need more.

We do not allow commercial use of this endpoint. Please see our pro service for SSL access, advanced features and commercial support.

Code examples

Simple code examples in popular languages are given below:

• PHP
• Javascript
• jQuery
• Python

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

$ch = curl_init('http://ipwhois.app/json/'.$ip);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$json = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

// Decode JSON response
$ipwhois_result = json_decode($json, true);

// Country code output, field "country_code"
echo $ipwhois_result['country_code'];

var ip = ''; // Current IP
var XMLHttp = new XMLHttpRequest();

XMLHttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
	if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
		var json = JSON.parse(this.responseText);
		// Country code output, field "country_code"
		alert(json.country_code);
	}
};
XMLHttp.open("GET", "http://ipwhois.app/json/" + ip, true);
XMLHttp.send();

var ip = ''; // Current IP

// Sending an API request using jQuery.ajax
$.ajax({
	method: 'GET',
	contentType: 'application/json',
	url: 'http://ipwhois.app/json/' + ip,
	dataType: 'json',
	success: function(json) {
	    // Country code output, field "country_code"
	    alert(json.country_code);
	}
});

import urllib2
import json

ip = "8.8.4.4";

# Sending an API request
response = urllib2.urlopen("http://ipwhois.app/json/"+ip)
ipgeolocation = json.load(response)

# Country code output, field "country_code"
print ipgeolocation["country_code"]