IP Address Location Command Line Tool
Bash script for command line IP geolocation that can be use on any linux distribution.#!/bin/sh # ### ### For assistance, please visit forum.ipinfodb.com # # Created by Eric Gamache on 2009-05-26 # Version 1.0 by Eric Gamache -- 2009-06-04 # Version 1.1 updated by Marc-Andre Caron -- 2009-06-08 .. Added timezone # Version 1.2 updated by Eric Gamache -- 2009-06-08 .. fix minors bugs. # Version 1.3 updated by Marc-Andre Caron -- 2010-02-11 .. new timezone support, reduced complexity of the script. # # This script is provided "as is", with absolutely no warranty expressed or # implied. Any use is at your own risk. Permission to use or copy this # script for any purpose is hereby granted without fee. Permission to # modify the code and to distribute modified code is granted, provided # the above notices are retained, and a notice that the code was modified # is included with the above copyright notice. # ############################################### #### #### #### URL="http://api.ipinfodb.com/v2/ip_query.php?ip=" # WGET_OPTION="=-b -q --wait=3 --waitretry=2 --random-wait --limit-rate=9578 " WGET_AGENT="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)" # ERROR=0 # ############################################### if [ "$1" = "" ]; then ERROR=1 else IP=$1 HTTP_LINK_XML="$URL""$IP""&output=xml&timezone=" HTTP_LINK_JSON="$URL""$IP""&output=json&timezone=" fi ############## if [ "$2" != "" ]; then if [ "$2" != "json" ] && [ "$2" != "xml" ] ; then ERROR=1 fi TYPE="$2" else ERROR=1 fi ############## if [ "$3" != "" ]; then if [ "$3" != "true" ] && [ "$3" != "false" ] ; then ERROR=1 fi TIMEZONE="$3" else ERROR=1 fi ############################################### ############################################### if [ "$ERROR" != "0" ]; then echo " " echo " usage : $0 IP TYPE TIMEZONE" echo " Where IP is the IP to check" echo " TYPE is the output type (xml|json)" echo " TIMEZONE is to show timezone data or not (false|true)" echo " Big thanks to the team of IPInfoDB (http://ipinfodb.com)" exit fi ############################################### # TST_wget=`wget > /dev/null 2>&1` # ErrorLevel=$? # if [ "$ErrorLevel" != 1 ] ; then echo " ----" echo " wget not found; please install it for proper operation." echo " ----" exit fi ############################################### ############################################### ####### ####### if [ "$TYPE" = "json" ]; then JSON_Info=`wget -qO- --user-agent="$WGET_AGENT" $HTTP_LINK_JSON"$TIMEZONE" 2>&1` echo "$JSON_Info" else XML_Info=`wget -qO- --user-agent="$WGET_AGENT" $HTTP_LINK_XML"$TIMEZONE" 2>&1` echo "$XML_Info" fi
Servers uptime
We have 2 servers. They are load balanced & highly available (ldirectord + heartbeat setup). Our goal is to have over 99.99% uptime.
Query limit
We do not have a specific daily limit but queries that are at a rate faster than 2 per second will be put in "queue". If you stay below 2 queries/second everything will be normal. If you go over the limit, you will still get an answer for all queries but they will be slowed down to about 1 per second. Good programming practices such as not querying our API for all page views (you can store the data in a cookie or a database) will also help not reaching the limit.
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Support
For all non Googleable questions, visit the forum. We also offer custom integration.
