IPGEO offers full Application Programming Interface (API) for our free IP GEO tools using standard HTTP protocol. In order to use our IP GEO API you require a valid GEOIP API key.

To receive GEOIP API key you will need to register and apply for the key. IPGEO API interface has rate limits - please read more about our API usage limits.

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Api command syntax and usage

API server name: api.ipgeo.com
API server port: 80
API server protocol: TCP

Commands are passed via standard HTTP protocol GET query.

To query IP to Country tool you will perform the following GET query against api.ipgeo.com:80

/api/cmd/country?ip=<ip_address>&key=<your_api_key>

where

<ip_address> - is the address you want to map to country name
<your_api_key> - your API key

For example a full HTTP URL follows:

http://api.ipgeo.com/api/cmd/country.php?ip=10.10.10.10&key=565656565

Other valid API commands:

http://api.ipgeo.com/api/cmd/city.php?ip=<ip_address>&key=<your_api_key>