Programmatic usage of our IP Information service

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Programmatic usage of our IP Information service

Quickstart - A mix of the most useful/popular queries

##### Get just your IPv4/v6 address
curl -fsSL https://address.computer/flat
# 2a07:e00::333

##### Force cURL to use IPv4
curl -4 -fsSL https://address.computer/flat
# 185.130.44.108

##### Or simply request our v4/v6-only subdomain
curl -fsSL https://v4.address.computer/flat
# 185.130.44.108
curl -fsSL https://v6.address.computer/flat
# 2a07:e00::333

##### Get the GeoIP country for your IP 
curl -fsSL https://address.computer/flat/country
# Sweden

##### Get your full location (city, postcode, country)
curl -fsSL https://address.computer/flat/location
# Stockholm, 173 11, Sweden

##### Get your ISP's name and AS Number (ASN)
curl -fsSL https://address.computer/flat/asninfo
# Privex Inc.
# AS210083

##### Get all information about your IP in plain text greppable format
curl -fsSL https://address.computer/index.txt
curl -H 'Accept: text/plain' -fsSL https://address.computer/  # ALTERNATIVE
curl -fsSL https://address.computer/?format=text  # ALTERNATIVE
#IP: 2a07:e01:123::456
#Version: ipv6
#Hostname:
#UserAgent: curl/7.54.0
#Country: Sweden
#CountryCode: SE
#City: Stockholm
#Postcode: 173 11
#Lat: 59.3333
#Long: 18.05
#ASNum: 210083
#ASName: Privex Inc.
#Network: 2a07:e01::/32

##### Get all information about your IP as JSON
curl -fsSL https://address.computer/index.json
curl -H 'Accept: application/json' -fsSL https://address.computer/  # ALTERNATIVE
curl -fsSL https://address.computer/?format=json  # ALTERNATIVE
#  {
#    "error": false,
#    "geo": {
#      "as_name": "Privex Inc.",
#      "as_number": 210083,
#      "city": "Stockholm",
#      "country": "Sweden",
#      "country_code": "SE",
#      "error": false,
#      "ip_address": "2a07:e01:123::456",
#      "lat": 59.3333,
#      "long": 18.05,
#      "network": "2a07:e01::/32",
#      "postcode": "173 11"
#    },
#    "hostname": "",
#    "ip": "2a07:e01:123::456",
#    "ip_type": "ipv6",
#    "ip_valid": true,
#    "messages": [],
#    "ua": "curl/7.54.0"
#  }

##### Get all information about your IP as YAML
curl -fsSL https://address.computer/index.yml
curl -H 'Accept: application/yaml' -fsSL https://address.computer/  # ALTERNATIVE
curl -fsSL https://address.computer/?format=yml  # ALTERNATIVE
#  error: false
#  geo:
#    as_name: Privex Inc.
#    as_number: 210083
#    city: Stockholm
#    country: Sweden
#    country_code: SE
#    error: false
#    ip_address: 2a07:e01:123::456
#    lat: 59.3333
#    long: 18.05
#    network: 2a07:e01::/32
#    postcode: 173 11
#  hostname: ''
#  ip: 2a07:e01:123::456
#  ip_type: ipv6
#  ip_valid: true
#  messages: []
#  ua: curl/7.54.0

##### (JSON) Get information about any v4/v6 IP
curl -fsSL https://address.computer/lookup/185.130.47.1
#  {
#    "error": false,
#    "geo": {
#      "as_name": "Privex Inc.",
#      "as_number": 210083,
#      "city": "Amsterdam",
#      "country": "Netherlands",
#      "country_code": "NL",
#      "error": false,
#      "ip_address": "185.130.47.1",
#      "lat": 52.352,
#      "long": 4.9392,
#      "network": "185.130.44.0/22",
#      "postcode": "1098"
#    },
#    "hostname": "n9k.ams.nl1.privex.cc",
#    "ip": "185.130.47.1",
#    "ip_type": "ipv4",
#    "ip_valid": true,
#    "messages": [],
#    "ua": "curl/7.54.0"
#  }

##### (Plain Text) Get information about any v4/v6 IP
curl -fsSL https://address.computer/lookup.txt/185.130.47.1
curl -H 'Accept: text/plain' -fsSL https://address.computer/lookup/185.130.47.1  # ALTERNATIVE
curl -fsSL https://address.computer/lookup/185.130.47.1?format=text  # ALTERNATIVE

##### (YAML) Get information about any v4/v6 IP
curl -fsSL https://address.computer/lookup.yml/185.130.47.1
curl -H 'Accept: application/yaml' -fsSL https://address.computer/lookup/185.130.47.1  # ALTERNATIVE
curl -fsSL https://address.computer/lookup/185.130.47.1?format=yml  # ALTERNATIVE

##### (Single Data) Get individual pieces of info about any v4/v6 IP
curl -fsSL https://address.computer/lookup/2a07:e00::333/city
# Stockholm
curl -fsSL https://address.computer/lookup/2a07:e00::333/hostname
# se.dns.privex.io
curl -fsSL https://address.computer/lookup/2a07:e00::333/coords
# 59.3333, 18.0500
curl -fsSL https://address.computer/lookup/2a07:e00::333/asninfo
# Privex Inc.
# AS210083

Supported output formats

Some of our pages / endpoints support outputting their data in multiple formats.

You can select a format either by using ?format=TYPE - which is high priority, or you can use the Accept: header.

You can also specify format as both an encoded POST form, or as JSON in the POST body.

Example Usage for format param and Accept header

curl https://address.computer/?format=json
curl -H 'Accept: application/json' https://address.computer/

curl https://address.computer/?format=yaml 
curl -H 'Accept: application/yaml' https://address.computer/

curl https://address.computer/lookup/185.130.44.123?format=yaml 
curl -H 'Accept: application/yaml' https://address.computer/lookup/185.130.44.123

# Using the HTTPie tool to send a JSON body POST request 
http -p hbHB POST https://address.computer/lookup/ format=plain addr=185.130.44.56

HTML

At the time of writing, currently only the index page ( / ), as well as this page ( /api/ ) support outputting their data in HTML format - though /api/ (this page) is purely a documentation page, and does not have any special functionality anyway.

HTML is used by default for the index page, however if needed, you can manually specify that you want HTML output by either passing format=html as a GET/POST (i.e. /?format=html) argument, or by ensuring that text/html is the highest priority in your Accept: header.

Matching types for format= and Accept: are:

html
text/html
text/x-html
text/xhtml
text/xhtml+xml
applicatiom/html
application/x-html
application/xhtml
application/xhtml+xml
web
page
webpage

JSON

The JSON format is available as a format option on the following endpoints:

/ (index - default format: html)
/lookup(/<ip>)(/<dtype>) (IP Lookup - default format: json)

Matching types for format= and Accept: are:

json
js
api
text/json
text/x-json
application/json
application/x-json
application/js

YAML (YML)

The YAML format is available as a format option on the following endpoints:

/ (index - default format: html)
/lookup(/<ip>)(/<dtype>) (IP Lookup - default format: json)

Matching types for format= and Accept: are:

yaml
yml
applicatiom/yaml
applicatiom/yml
applicatiom/x-yaml
applicatiom/x-yml
text/yaml
text/yml
text/x-yaml
text/x-yml

Plain Text

The Plain Text format is available as a format option on the following endpoints:

/ (index - default format: html)
/lookup(/<ip>)(/<dtype>) (IP Lookup - default format: json)
/flat(/<dtype>) (Simple flat connecting IP lookup for shellscripts - default format: plain)

Matching types for format= and Accept: are:

flat
plain
x-plain
plaintext
plain-text
text
text/*
text/plain
text/x-plain
text/plaintext
text/plain-text
application/text
application/plain
application/x-plain
application/plaintext
application/plain-text

Index Endpoint

The index endpoint at / - by default renders an HTML web page, designed to be read by humans. The HTML page displays the current IP you're connecting from - directly within the HTML body, while the IPv4/IPv6 sections are populated using JavaScript via AJAX queries to the JSON format of this endpoint on our v4 and v6-only domains.

Endpoints:

/
/index.txt
/index.yml
/index.yaml
/index.json
/index.html

Supported Output Formats

HTML (html) - This is the DEFAULT used for the index endpoint
Plain Text (plain) - Displays information about the IP and User Agent you're connecting from, in plain text. The plain text output is designed to be easy to parse using standard UNIX utilities such as grep, awk, sed, and/or even just using IFS= within shells like bash/zsh.
JSON (json) - Displays information about the IP you're connecting from, in JSON format.
YAML (yaml / yml) - Displays information about the IP you're connecting from, in YAML (YML) format.

Example Queries

JSON Output for Index Endpoint

On URLs which support JSON output, you can either pass the GET parameter ?format=json - or you can set the Accept header so that application/json is the most preferred content requested from the server.

You can query the main site to get information about your system's most preferred IP version, or if the client you're querying with (e.g. curl with -4 or -6) allows specifying the IP version, then you can select an IP version using your client.

curl https://address.computer/?format=json

# Alternative - send the header 'Accept: application/json'
curl -H 'Accept: application/json' https://address.computer/

# Make the request using IPv4
curl -4 https://address.computer/?format=json
# Make the request using IPv6
curl -6 https://address.computer/?format=json

Example Output:

{
    "error": false,
    "geo": {
        "as_name": "Privex Inc.",
        "as_number": 210083,
        "city": "Stockholm",
        "country": "Sweden",
        "country_code": "SE",
        "error": false,
        "ip_address": "2a07:e01:123::456",
        "lat": 59.3333,
        "long": 18.05,
        "network": "2a07:e01::/32",
        "postcode": "173 11"
    },
    "hostname": "",
    "ip": "2a07:e01:123::456",
    "ip_type": "ipv6",
    "ip_valid": true,
    "messages": [],
    "ua": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0"
}

Alternatively, you can query our IPv4-only / IPv6-only domain to force your client to use a specific IP version to obtain the results:

curl https://v4.address.computer/?format=json

curl https://v6.address.computer/?format=json

Plain Output for Index Endpoint

You can request plain text output from our index page using ?format=plain - or you can set your Accept to prioritise text/plain.

curl https://address.computer/?format=plain

# Alternative - send the header 'Accept: text/plain'
curl -H 'Accept: text/plain' https://address.computer/

` Result:

IP: 2a07:e01:123::456
Version: ipv6
Hostname:
UserAgent: HTTPie/2.0.0
Country: Sweden
CountryCode: SE
City: Stockholm
Postcode: 173 11
Lat: 59.3333
Long: 18.05
ASNum: 210083
ASName: Privex Inc.
Network: 2a07:e01::/32

Lookup Endpoint

The lookup endpoint allows you to query General + GeoIP information about any arbitrary IPv4/IPv6 address.

Endpoints:

/lookup/
/lookup.yml/
/lookup.yaml/
/lookup.json/
/lookup.txt/
/lookup/<addr>/(<type>/)
/lookup.yml/<addr>/(<type>/)
/lookup.yaml/<addr>/(<type>/)
/lookup.json/<addr>/(<type>/)
/lookup.txt/<addr>/(<type>/)

Supported Output Formats

JSON (json) - This is the DEFAULT used for the lookup endpoint. Displays information about the IP you're looking up, in JSON format.
Plain Text (plain) - Displays information about the IP and User Agent you're looking up, in plain text. The plain text output is designed to be easy to parse using standard UNIX utilities such as grep, awk, sed, and/or even just using IFS= within shells like bash/zsh.
YAML (yaml / yml) - Displays information about the IP you're looking up, in YAML (YML) format.

Example Queries

Standard GET request

Command:

user@privex-example ~ $ http -p hbHB GET https://address.computer/lookup/

Result:

GET /lookup/ HTTP/1.1

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Length: 471
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "error": false,
    "geo": {
        "as_name": "Privex Inc.",
        "as_number": 210083,
        "city": "Stockholm",
        "country": "Sweden",
        "country_code": "SE",
        "error": false,
        "ip_address": "2a07:e01:123::456",
        "lat": 59.3333,
        "long": 18.05,
        "network": "2a07:e01::/32",
        "postcode": "173 11"
    },
    "hostname": "",
    "ip": "2a07:e01:123::456",
    "ip_type": "ipv6",
    "ip_valid": false,
    "messages": [],
    "ua": "HTTPie/2.0.0"
}

GET Request with IP in URI + yml format

Command:

user@privex-example ~ $ http -p hbHB GET https://address.computer/lookup/185.130.46.70?format=yml

GET /lookup/185.130.46.70?format=yml HTTP/1.1

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Length: 352
Content-Type: application/yaml

error: false
geo:
  as_name: Privex Inc.
  as_number: 210083
  city: Tokyo
  country: Japan
  country_code: JP
  error: false
  ip_address: 185.130.46.70
  lat: 35.6887
  long: 139.745
  network: 185.130.46.0/24
  postcode: 102-0082
hostname: 185.130.46.70.static.privex.cc
ip: 185.130.46.70
ip_type: ipv4
ip_valid: false
messages: []
ua: HTTPie/2.0.0

POST Request with IP in JSON body + plain format

Command:

user@privex-example ~ $  http -p hbHB POST https://address.computer/lookup.txt/ ip=185.130.44.56

POST /lookup.txt/ HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json, */*
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "ip": "185.130.44.56"
}

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Length: 247
Content-Type: text/plain

IP: 185.130.44.56
Version: ipv4
Hostname: 185.130.44.56.static.privex.cc
UserAgent: HTTPie/2.0.0
Country: Sweden
CountryCode: SE
City: Stockholm
Postcode: 173 11
Lat: 59.3333
Long: 18.05
ASNum: 210083
ASName: Privex Inc.
Network: 185.130.44.0/23

Flat Type Summaries

These Flat Types can be used both with /flat/<type> as well as /lookup/<ip>

ip / addr / address / ip_address - Get IPv4/v6 address
dns / rdns / reverse / host / hostname - Get the Reverse DNS (rDNS) hostname for the IP address
version / type / ipv / ipver / ipversion / ip_version - Outputs either ipv4 or ipv6 depending on whether you're connecting from / looking up an IPv4 or IPv6 address.
ua / agent / useragent / user_agent - Get client/browser User Agent
country / region - Get the name of the country where the IP appears to be located
country_code / region_code / country-code / region-code / code - Get the two-letter country code where the IP appears to be located
city / area - Get the name of the city where the IP appears to be located
as / asn / asnum / asnumber / isp_number / isp_asn - Get the ASN (Autonomous System Number) of the network which your IP appears to belong to.
asname / isp / as_name / isp_name / ispname - Get the name of the ISP / AS of which your IP appears to belong to.
asfull / fullas / asnfull / ispfull / fullisp / asinfo / asninfo / asn_info / ispinfo / isp_info - Get the name of the ISP/AS your IP appears to belong to, as well as the AS number (with AS prefix), separated by a newline.
loc / locate / location / countrycity / citycountry / country_city / city_country - The city, zip/postcode, and country, in a single line formatted like an address.
post / postal / postcode / post_code / zip / zipcode / zip_code - The ZIP / Postcode where your IP appears to be located within the country/city.
lat / latitude - The latitude co-ordinate, which determines the north/south position in the world.
lon / long / longitude - The longitude co-ordinate, which determines the east/west position in the world.
latlon /latlong / latitudelongitude / pos / position / cord / coord / coords / coordinates / co-ordinates - The latitude AND longitude, separated by a comma and space.
all / full / info / information - All available information about

Flat Endpoint

We also have the "flat" endpoint:

/flat(/<type>)

This is designed for use in shellscripts (bash/zsh/etc.), and other kinds of situations where you might not be able to parse JSON/YML/etc.

Get just your IP address

user@host ~ $ curl https://address.computer/flat
2a07:e01:123::456

user@host ~ $ curl -4 https://address.computer/flat
185.130.44.140

Get just your User Agent

user@host ~ $ curl https://address.computer/flat/ua
curl/7.54.0

Get just the Country (GeoIP) of your IP address

user@host ~ $ curl https://address.computer/flat/country
Sweden

Get just the City (GeoIP) of your IP address

user@host ~ $ curl https://address.computer/flat/city
Stockholm

Get your full GeoIP location, formatted like an address

user@host ~ $ curl https://address.computer/flat/location
Stockholm, 173 11, Sweden

Get your GeoIP location co-ordinates, returned as latitude, longitude

user@host ~ $ curl https://address.computer/flat/pos
59.3333, 18.0500

Get your ISP/ASN name and their AS number, separated by a newline

user@host ~ $ curl https://address.computer/flat/asninfo
Privex Inc.
AS210083

Privex's IPv4 / IPv6 Information Page

Programmatic usage of our IP Information service

Quickstart - A mix of the most useful/popular queries

Supported output formats

Example Usage for format param and Accept header

HTML

JSON

YAML (YML)

Plain Text

Index Endpoint

Supported Output Formats

Example Queries

JSON Output for Index Endpoint

Plain Output for Index Endpoint

Lookup Endpoint

Supported Output Formats

Example Queries

Standard GET request

GET Request with IP in URI + yml format

POST Request with IP in JSON body + plain format

Flat Type Summaries

Flat Endpoint

Get just your IP address

Get just your User Agent

Get just the Country (GeoIP) of your IP address

Get just the City (GeoIP) of your IP address

Get your full GeoIP location, formatted like an address

Get your GeoIP location co-ordinates, returned as latitude, longitude

Get your ISP/ASN name and their AS number, separated by a newline