ipinfo.io
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ip geolocation api
SHOW HN2014
241points
117comments
#65of 2,272 in 2014
Top 3%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
9 positive, 35 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 39 critical, out of 85 comments about the project. Thread score -0.34.
Execution: 1 for, 13 againstIdea: 1 for, 11 againstPerformance: 1 for, 10 againstPricing: 1 for, 4 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful, well-done service with accurate results for some users
From 2 comments
This looks very well done and useful. Usually though I just use http://www.moanmyip.com for the weirdness of it. Or pretty much any search engine includes that up top when you…
throwaway420 on HNHmm. For me it was off by 20 miles. Not bad considering that most other GeoIP services get my location off by several hundred miles. I'll probably be using this. Thanks!
owenversteeg on HN
Objections
Geolocation accuracy is often wrong at city level
From 3 comments
This believes that I am in London. I am most decidedly not in London. FreeGeoIP thinks I'm in Edinburgh, which is only slightly better.
vertex-four on HNComplete with completely wrong geolocation...
brohee on HNIn my case it was off by 55 miles so the address, lat/lng and postcode were wrong but other than that ok (my ISP is Andrews and Arnold). Why not just use Maxmind though?
corford on HN
Uses a free database that may violate license terms
From 3 comments
That's for your own use however, the license says: Access to the data is restricted to employees and contractors of the license holder. With contractors, the license holder is…
Erwin on HN> IP address databases are typically bought and sold for figures in the thousands. And presumably, therefore, issued under licenses that forbid you from starting a query service?…
nly on HNThis really looks like maxmind city level, so... until we get confirmation from the dev on what db it is, assume this service can disappear at any moment due to license issues.
hox on HN
No IPv6 support
From 2 comments
Any plans for IPv6 support?
zaphoyd on HNDoesn't support IPv6 :)
aabalkan on HN
Free request limit is too low
From 1 comment
I use https://freegeoip.net/ which gives you output in JSON, CSV or XML and has a limit of 10,000 requests per hour. The limit of 1,000 per day on this service is too low.
jgrahamc on HN
Requests
Add IPv6 support
From 2 comments
Any plans for IPv6 support?
zaphoyd on HNDoesn't support IPv6 :)
aabalkan on HN
Add HTTPS on free tier
From 1 comment
Security (HTTPS) as a paid feature?
drdaeman on HN
Add JSON trailing newline and null hostname handling
From 2 comments
Nice... can we have a trailing newline on the JSON?
natch on HNIf the hostname is unknown, the json hostname property should probably be null instead of the string "No hostname"
watson on HN
Questions
What GeoIP database is used?
From 2 comments
What's the underlying GeoIP database?
doktrin on HNI just finished integrating geo IP lookups into an app I'm working on, using a library that queries a number of the free IP lookup services out there. Something that I've learned…
disbelief on HN
Why not just use MaxMind?
From 2 comments
Why would anyone pay for this? Maxmind is the industry standard and way cheaper.
Phil_Latio on HNIn my case it was off by 55 miles so the address, lat/lng and postcode were wrong but other than that ok (my ISP is Andrews and Arnold). Why not just use Maxmind though?
corford on HN
Alternatives named
MaxMind GeoIP
From 2 comments
Why would anyone pay for this? Maxmind is the industry standard and way cheaper.
Phil_Latio on HNMaxmind have a free database (GeoLite2) that's updated weekly. Here's an overview of the accuracy per country: http://www.maxmind.com/en/geolite_city_accuracy It's less accurate…
hansjorg on HN
freegeoip.net
From 1 comment
I use https://freegeoip.net/ which gives you output in JSON, CSV or XML and has a limit of 10,000 requests per hour. The limit of 1,000 per day on this service is too low.
jgrahamc on HN
ip-api.com
From 2 comments
I use http://ip-api.com/ and I find it works great (docs: http://ip-api.com/docs/). It provides response formats: xml, json, csv, newline separated, serialized php. And enforce a…
msantos on HNhttp://ip-api.com/ is also a nice alternative, with JSON, CSV, XML, and others.
vld on HN
myip.ms
From 1 comment
This does it correctly: http://myip.ms/info/whois/200.7.52.1
gesman on HN