IPLocate

About IPLocate

IPLocate provides an IP address intelligence platform offering both a real-time API and downloadable databases for IP geolocation, privacy detection, and threat data. The API returns geolocation fields such as country, city, region, postal code, latitude/longitude, time zone, currency code, and calling code, along with privacy and security signals including proxy, VPN, Tor exit node, and abuse/spam blocklist detection. It also provides hosting and datacenter provider identification, company information (name, domain, and organization type such as hosting, ISP, government, or business), and network data including autonomous system (ASN) and IP whois details with abuse contact information. The service supports both IPv4 and IPv6 lookups.

The product is aimed at developers and businesses building applications that need IP-based data, with stated use cases including web personalization (localized content, currency, and language), fraud prevention (detecting proxies, VPNs, and anonymized traffic to block fake accounts or fraudulent orders), cybersecurity (rate limiting, bot detection, and blocking scraping via hosting/ASN detection), regulatory compliance (determining user location for VAT/GST calculation or GDPR/CCPA prompts), and location-based analytics.

The platform states it has been running since 2017, updates its databases daily, and serves over 400 million API requests per day with an average response time under 20ms and 99.99% historical uptime. It offers a free tier that includes full access to all data types, along with downloadable databases covering geolocation, privacy and threat detection, company information, autonomous systems, and IP whois data; a separate free IP-to-country-and-ASN database is also available. Code examples are provided for curl, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, and PHP.

Key features

• IP geolocation (country, city, region, postal code, lat/long, timezone, currency, calling code)
• VPN, proxy, and Tor exit node detection
• Hosting provider and datacenter detection
• Company information lookup (name, domain, type) for an IP address
• Autonomous system (ASN) and IP whois data with abuse contact details
• Daily-updated downloadable IP geolocation, threat, and company databases

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