IPinfo Python Free Database Library

This is the official Python library for IPinfo.io's free IP to Country ASN Database, allowing you to lookup country and ASN details for IP addresses.

Getting Started

You'll need an IPinfo API access token (which you can get by signing up for a free account at https://ipinfo.io/signup) if you want to download the free database.

You can also provide the path to the database file explicitly.

Installation

This package works with Python 3.5 or greater. However, we only officially support non-EOL Python versions.

pip install ipinfo-db

Quick Start

>>> import ipinfo_db
>>> access_token = '123456789abc'
>>> client = ipinfo_db.Client(access_token)
>>> ip_address = '216.239.36.21'
>>> country = client.getCountry(ip_address)
>>> country
'US'

The Client will download the free country_asn database if it doesn't exist or if the path to the database file is not provided.

If the database exists in the default path, the download will be skipped, but can still be forced to replace the old file by providing replace=True while initializing the Client object.

>>> client = ipinfo_db.Client(access_token, replace=True)

Available Methods

• getDetails(ip)
• getCountryDetails(ip)
• getCountry(ip)
• getCountryName(ip)
• getContinent(ip)
• getContinentName(ip)
• getASNDetails(ip)
• getASN(ip)
• getASNName(ip)
• getASNDomain(ip)
• close()

Using the MMDB reader separately

Advanced users can use the MMDB reader that is included in the installation.

Sample Usage

>>> from ipinfo_db.reader import Reader
>>> db = Reader('PATH_TO_MMDB_FILE')
>>> result = db.get('IP')
>>> result

Available Methods

• open(path)
• close()
• metadata()
• get(ip)
• getWithPrefixLen(ip)

Other Libraries

There are official IPinfo client libraries available for many languages including PHP, Go, Java, Ruby, and many popular frameworks such as Django, Rails and Laravel. There are also many third party libraries and integrations available for our API.

About IPinfo

Founded in 2013, IPinfo prides itself on being the most reliable, accurate, and in-depth source of IP address data available anywhere. We process terabytes of data to produce our custom IP geolocation, company, carrier, VPN detection, hosted domains, and IP type data sets. Our API handles over 40 billion requests a month for 100,000 businesses and developers.