IP to Earth

Find the Country and City of origin for an IP Address

Requirements

Usage

Input Parameter Descriptions

Index Name Example Description
0 ip string IPv4 or IPv6 address

Making a Request

require "ip_to_earth"

IpToEarth.lookup('68.10.149.45') # Pass in any valid IPv4 or IPv6 value

Using Results

result = IpToEarth.lookup("8.8.8.8")
# => #<struct IpToEarth::APIResult
#  valid=true,
#  country="United States",
#  country_code="US",
#  hostname="",
#  city="Mountain View",
#  ip="8.8.8.8",
#  latitude=37.40599060058594,
#  longitude=-122.0785140991211,
#  region="California",
#  continent_code="NA",
#  country_code3="USA",
#  currency_code="USD">

result.valid # => true 
result.country # => "United States" 
result.country_code # => "US" 
result.city # => "Virginia Beach" 
result.latitude # => 37.40599060058594 
# ...

Installation

# In your Gemfile
gem 'ip_to_earth', git: 'https://github.com/LynxEyes/ip_to_earth.git'

Result Attribute Descriptions

Attribute Type Description
valid boolean If the IP Address passed in is syntactically valid
country string Full country name where the IP address is located
country_code string ISO Country Code for the IP Address
hostname string Hostname - if any - for the IP address
city string City where the IP Address is located
ip string IP address that was evaluated
latitude float Geographic latitude of the identified IP address
longitude float Geographic longitude of the identified IP address
region string State or Region where the IP address is located

Live Interactive Testing

Doublecheck results, use a Live Proxy and check your API Key with the interactive documentation at:

http://docs.iptoearthexp.apiary.io/

You will need your IPTOEARTH_API_KEY from the setup screen where you've provisioned the IP to Earth add-on.

Troubleshooting

As a sanity check it is sometimes useful to bypass your app stack and check the endpoint, your API Key and parameters directly.

Test with your browser

# Modify the following to use your actual API Key
'https://iptoearth.expeditedaddons.com/?api_key=REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_IPTOEARTH_API_KEY&ip=68.10.149.45'

A successful call will return your requested data with a HTTP result code of 200 and be in JSON format. We recommend the JSON Formatter extension as a useful tool.

In Development

The IP to Earth gem relies upon the environment variable ENV['IPTOEARTH_API_KEY'] being present and correctly configured to authenticate to the service. You will need to have this variable present in your local environment for the gem to work correctly.

If you're using Heroku, please read their Guide to Heroku Local which has instructions on easily copying your config values to your development environment.

DOTENV

https://github.com/bkeepers/dotenv

If you're trying to use IP to Earth in your local development or test environment with the dotenv gem be sure that you are loading the dotenv-rails gem with the rails-now requirement. 

# Example Gemfile excerpt

gem 'dotenv-rails', :require => 'dotenv/rails-now'
gem 'iptoearth'

FOREMAN

https://github.com/ddollar/foreman

If you're having issues with configuring dotenv, you might want to try foreman which will also autoload .env files in your local environment.

Test in the Rails console

Launch rails c in your development project directory and at the prompt enter ENV[IPTOEARTH_API_KEY] which, if you've configured your development environment correctly should display your API Key.

License

The IP to Earth gem is licensed under the MIT license.