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

Developer Documentation

To learn more about installation, usage, and code examples, please visit the developer documentation at https://ip2location-c-library.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html.

Installation

Please refer to the installation section in our documentation for instruction on how to install in various platform.

Sample BIN Databases

• Download free IP2Location LITE databases at https://lite.ip2location.com
• Download IP2Location sample databases at https://www.ip2location.com/developers

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

• https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=32132
• https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/IP2Location
• https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=IP2Location

Support

Email: [email protected].
URL: https://www.ip2location.com