IPLocate for Ruby

Find geolocation data from IP addresses (e.g. city, country, timezone) using the IPLocate.io API.

IPLocate.io provides 1,500 free requests per day. For higher plans, check out the website

Installation

Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:

gem 'iplocate'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install iplocate

Usage

require 'iplocate'

# Look up an IP address
results = IPLocate.lookup("8.8.8.8")

# Or with an API key
results = IPLocate.lookup("8.8.8.8", "abcdef")

results["country"]
# "United States"

results["country_code"]
# "US"

results["org"]
# "Google LLC"

results.inspect
# {
#   "ip"=>"8.8.8.8",
#   "country"=>"United States",
#   "country_code"=>"US",
#   "city"=>nil,
#   "continent"=>"North America",
#   "latitude"=>37.751,
#   "longitude"=>-97.822,
#   "time_zone"=>nil,
#   "postal_code"=>nil,
#   "org"=>"Google LLC",
#   "asn"=>"AS15169"
# } 

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/tallytarik/ruby-iplocate.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.