Introduction to IP2Location Database

IP2Location has more than 20 years of experience in detecting user geolocation information and detecting anonymous proxies. The detecting uses IP as the keyword and uses non-intrusive IP location lookup technology to finally determine the approximate geographic location of an IP address along with some other useful information like country, region or state, city, latitude and longitude, ZIP/Postal code, time zone, Internet Service Provider (ISP) or company name, domain name, net speed, area code, weather station code, weather station name, mobile country code (MCC), mobile network code (MNC) and carrier brand, elevation, usage type, address type and advertising category.

IP address geolocation technology is widely used in our life and work, such as network attack traceability & forensics, analysis of user portraits, online advertising positioning, network security protection, website operation optimization, and improvement of network analysis capabilities, so as to maximize conversions, sales and more. The IP2Location IP address geolocation database supports IPv4 and IPv6 queries. The trial version does not require registration and offers free IP geolocation query up to 50 IP addresses per day. Registered users can query 200 IP addresses per day. Currently, the API calls reach 10B+.

The IP address geolocation database of IP2Location is a mapping table with IP as the key and country/city/latitude and longitude as the value. The richer the value, the higher the accuracy of the IP information. There are 25 product packages in the IP address geolocation database listed as DB1~DB25. The following is the official introduction and annual fee.

• High accuracy. IP2Location uses a variety of algorithms to detect the IP's location, the result is highly accurate, and it allocates team members to manually review and correct.
• Support IPv4 & IPv6. The database supports IPv4 and IPv6 address queries.
• Easy Integration. It can be seamlessly integrated into any software platforms to retrieve IP geolocation information using database, REST API and SDK (Java, .NET, PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl and more).
• Multiple Granularity. It comes with different IP database packages with varying levels of IP geolocation information granularity to suit your business needs.
• Support downloading database.
• Update per month.
• IP2Location LITE database is free and available for users.
• Support upgrading at any time.
• Provide web services.
• Offer a variety of free tools, such as redirecting visitors by country, IP address map, and widget.
• Provide detailed tutorials.

1. Sign up an account. Fill in the information on the official website of IP2Location to create an account. Then, log in to your account after you have verified your email address.

2. Select the database you want to buy. There are 25 databases, and the IP location level of each database is different. Click "Buy Online" to view the database product list immediately.

3. Pay for the product. After adding the product to the shopping cart, you should go to checkout. DB1~DB22 supports credit card. DB23~DB25 package is more advanced and the total amount is bigger. The payment page will prompt you to contact sales@ip2location.com for alternative payment method.

4. Download database. After checkout, the page will be redirected to your personal center, where you can view the product information you purchased, and you will be enabled to download the database you purchased in the "Download" column. The database is compressed by ZIP, you can download either a CSV (comma-separated values) file or a BIN binary data file.

1. Convert IP address format. The format of the IP address in the database is an Int number, you should convert them to a string format first. It is recommended to write a function to complete this process as the amount of data is so large.

2. Integrate data. Here we take PHP module as an example, first run the command: composer require ip2location/ip2location-php, and then write on the page: require 'vendor/autoload.php';

3. Query the database. For example, to query IP 8.8.8.8, you only need to write down:
$db = new IP2LocationDatabase('./data/data.BIN', IP2LocationDatabase::FILE_IO);
$records = $db->lookup('8.8.8.8', IP2LocationDatabase::ALL);
The information of IP in the database will be displayed immediately.

To conclude, you should have learned that IP2Location provides rich products, detailed descriptions, and large and accurate data. Most importantly, it's easy to integrate and offers many useful additional tools. For users who have a large number of IP geographic location information to retrieve and detect, IP2Location is undoubtedly a very good choice.

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