Tools to Query ‘IP’ Address Information from the ‘ipstack’ ‘API’
The ‘ipstack’ service (https://ipstack.com/) offers a powerful, real-time ‘IP’ to geolocation ‘API’ capable of looking up accurate location data and assessing security threats originating from risky ‘IP’ addresses. Tools are provided to query the simple and bulk ‘API’ query endpoints.
The following functions are implemented:
bulk_lookup: Perform “bulk” IP lookupip_lookup: Perform “standard” IP lookup
devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/ipstack")library(ipstack)
# current verison
packageVersion("ipstack")## [1] '0.1.0'
str(ip_lookup("155.52.187.7"), 2)## List of 13
## $ ip : chr "155.52.187.7"
## $ type : chr "ipv4"
## $ continent_code: chr "NA"
## $ continent_name: chr "North America"
## $ country_code : chr "US"
## $ country_name : chr "United States"
## $ region_code : chr "MA"
## $ region_name : chr "Massachusetts"
## $ city : chr "Boston"
## $ zip : chr "02115"
## $ latitude : num 42.3
## $ longitude : num -71.1
## $ location :List of 8
## ..$ geoname_id : int 4930956
## ..$ capital : chr "Washington D.C."
## ..$ languages :'data.frame': 1 obs. of 3 variables:
## ..$ country_flag : chr "http://assets.ipstack.com/flags/us.svg"
## ..$ country_flag_emoji : chr "\U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8"
## ..$ country_flag_emoji_unicode: chr "U+1F1FA U+1F1F8"
## ..$ calling_code : chr "1"
## ..$ is_eu : logi FALSE