Show HN: Free IP to Country and ASN Downloads from Ipinfo.io

by coderholicon 2/28/2023, 7:28 PMwith 4 comments

Free IP to Country and ASN Data downloads:

  - MMDB, CSV and JSON format
  - Full accuracy (not degraded quality compared to our paid downloads)
  - IPv4 and IPv6 data
  - A single file that includes both country and ASN details
  - Daily updated
  - CC Attribution license (no usage restrictions, only requirement is a link back to ipinfo.io)
Here's an example of querying the MMDB file using our mmdbctl tool:

    $ echo "1.1.1.1" | mmdbctl read country_asn.mmdb | jq .
    {
      "as_domain": "cloudflare.com",
      "as_name": "Cloudflare, Inc.",
      "asn": "AS13335",
      "continent": "NA",
      "continent_name": "North America",
      "country": "US",
      "country_name": "United States"
    }
Almost 8 years ago I launched the free IPinfo.io free geolocation API, but until now our data downloads have only been available to our enterprise customers. I'm really happy to be able to offer a subset of our data for free, and excited to see what projects this gets used in! Read more about this on our blog: https://ipinfo.io/blog/meet-free-ip-address-database/

Any feedback please shoot me an email: ben@ipinfo.io

by anyfactoron 2/28/2023, 7:46 PM

I would really love some feedback and queries from HN.

I have been in HN for a while now, and through absolute wild luck Ben hired me because, get this.... he liked a comment I made on HN. But that is another story....

I am the first DevRel hire of IPinfo and this is the first product launch that we did that celebrates the developer experience.

So, any feedback you have in regard to documentation, technical resources and using this boatload of data, please, let me know. Thank you.

by roberdamon 3/2/2023, 4:19 PM

This is awesome, thanks!!