IP2Location C Library

IP2Location is a C library that enables the user to find the country, region, city, latitude, longitude, zip code, time zone, ISP, domain name, connection type, area code, weather, mobile network, elevation, usage type, address type and category by IP address or hostname originates from. The library reads the geo location information from IP2Location BIN data file.

Supported IPv4 and IPv6 address.

For more details, please visit: https://www.ip2location.com/developers/c

Installation

Unix/Linux

autoreconf -i -v --force
./configure
make
make install
cd data
perl ip-country.pl

Windows

Execute "vcvarsall.bat". (This file is part of Microsoft Visual C, not ip2location code) 
nmake -f Makefile.win
cd data
perl ip-country.pl

MacOS

autoreconf -i -v --force
export CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/malloc 
./configure
make
make install
cd data
perl ip-country.pl

Testing

cd test
test-IP2Location

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

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