IPGeolocation Python SDK

Typed Python SDK for the IPGeolocation.io IP Location API.

• Single lookup (/v3/ipgeo) and bulk lookup (/v3/ipgeo-bulk)
• Sync client built on requests and async client built on httpx
• Typed response models plus raw JSON/XML methods
• Python 3.8+

Table of Contents

• Install
• Quick Start
• Authentication
• Notes
• Plan Behavior
• Examples
• Request Options
• Response Metadata
• Errors
• Links
• Development

Install

pip install ipgeolocationio

PyPI package: ipgeolocationio Package page: https://pypi.org/project/ipgeolocationio/ Import: ipgeolocation

Quick Start

from ipgeolocation import (
    IpGeolocationClient,
    IpGeolocationClientConfig,
    LookupIpGeolocationRequest,
)

config = IpGeolocationClientConfig(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")

with IpGeolocationClient(config) as client:
    response = client.lookup_ip_geolocation(
        LookupIpGeolocationRequest(ip="8.8.8.8")
    )

    print(response.data.ip)

    if response.data.location is not None:
        print(response.data.location.country_name)
        print(response.data.location.city)

    if response.data.time_zone is not None:
        print(response.data.time_zone.name)

Async

import asyncio

from ipgeolocation import (
    AsyncIpGeolocationClient,
    IpGeolocationClientConfig,
    LookupIpGeolocationRequest,
)


async def main() -> None:
    config = IpGeolocationClientConfig(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")

    async with AsyncIpGeolocationClient(config) as client:
        response = await client.lookup_ip_geolocation(
            LookupIpGeolocationRequest(ip="8.8.8.8")
        )
        print(response.data.ip)

        if response.data.location is not None:
            print(response.data.location.country_name)


asyncio.run(main())

The async client exposes the same methods as coroutines. Use async with for cleanup, or call await client.aclose() manually.

Authentication

API key: Works on all plans for single lookup and bulk lookup.

config = IpGeolocationClientConfig(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")

Request-origin auth: Paid plans only, and only for single lookup. If your origin is allowlisted in the IPGeolocation dashboard, the SDK sends it in the Origin header.

config = IpGeolocationClientConfig(request_origin="https://app.example.com")

request_origin must be an absolute http or https URL with no path, query string, or fragment. Bulk lookups always require api_key, even if request_origin is set. You can set both on the same config. Single lookups require at least one of them.

Client Config

Field	Use
api_key	API key auth for single lookup and bulk lookup
request_origin	Paid request-origin auth for single lookup
base_url	Override the API base URL
connect_timeout	Time to wait for the connection in seconds
read_timeout	Time to wait for the response body in seconds

Notes

• Typed methods require JSON. For XML output, use the _raw methods with output=ResponseFormat.XML.
• Optional modules need include. Fields like security, abuse, user_agent, hostname, geo_accuracy, and dma_code only appear in the response when you pass the matching include value. Without it, those fields will be None.
• fields and excludes only filter the response. They do not enable optional modules or unlock paid data.
• Domain lookup is paid only. Passing a domain as ip="google.com" works on paid plans. Free plans get a 401.
• The SDK does not retry. Timeouts, server errors, and rate limits raise exceptions directly. Implement your own retry logic if you need it.
• Do not reuse a closed client. After close(), aclose(), or leaving a with or async with block, further requests raise ValidationException.

Plan Behavior

Responses vary by plan.

Capabilities

Capability	Free	Paid
Single IPv4/IPv6 lookup	Yes	Yes
Domain lookup	No	Yes
Bulk lookup (/v3/ipgeo-bulk)	No	Yes
Non-English lang	No	Yes
Request-origin auth	No	Yes
Optional modules via include	No	Yes
include=["*"]	Base response only	All plan-available modules

Default Response Sections

Default single-lookup response:

Section	Free	Paid
location	Yes	Yes
country_metadata	Yes	Yes
currency	Yes	Yes
asn (basic: as_number, organization, country)	Yes	Yes
asn (full: adds type, domain, date_allocated, rir)	No	Yes
time_zone	Yes	Yes
network	No	Yes
company	No	Yes

Examples

The examples below assume you already have a configured client in scope. See Quick Start for setup.

Caller IP

Omit the ip parameter to look up the IP of the machine making the request:

response = client.lookup_ip_geolocation(LookupIpGeolocationRequest())
print(response.data.ip)  # your public IP

Domain Lookup (Paid)

When you look up a domain, the response includes the resolved IP and the original domain name:

response = client.lookup_ip_geolocation(
    LookupIpGeolocationRequest(ip="google.com")
)
print(response.data.ip)       # resolved IP address
print(response.data.domain)   # "google.com"

Security and Abuse

response = client.lookup_ip_geolocation(
    LookupIpGeolocationRequest(
        ip="9.9.9.9",
        include=["security", "abuse"],
    )
)

if response.data.security is not None:
    print(response.data.security.threat_score)

if response.data.abuse is not None and response.data.abuse.emails:
    print(response.data.abuse.emails[0])

User-Agent Parsing

To parse a visitor's user-agent string, pass include=["user_agent"] and send the visitor string in the request User-Agent header:

visitor_ua = (
    "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_2) "
    "AppleWebKit/601.3.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.2 Safari/601.3.9"
)

response = client.lookup_ip_geolocation(
    LookupIpGeolocationRequest(
        ip="115.240.90.163",
        include=["user_agent"],
        headers={"User-Agent": visitor_ua},
    )
)

if response.data.user_agent is not None:
    print(response.data.user_agent.name)
    print(response.data.user_agent.operating_system)

Note: The user_agent field on the request model is different. It overrides the outbound User-Agent header for the HTTP request itself and takes precedence over headers["User-Agent"]. If you set both, the API parses the user_agent value.

Filtered Response

Use fields to keep specific fields, or excludes to remove them:

response = client.lookup_ip_geolocation(
    LookupIpGeolocationRequest(
        ip="8.8.8.8",
        include=["security"],
        fields=["location.country_name", "security.threat_score", "security.is_vpn"],
        excludes=["currency"],
    )
)

if response.data.location is not None:
    print(response.data.location.country_name)

if response.data.security is not None:
    print(response.data.security.threat_score)
    print(response.data.security.is_vpn)

Raw XML

Typed methods only support JSON. For XML, use a raw method:

from ipgeolocation import ResponseFormat

response = client.lookup_ip_geolocation_raw(
    LookupIpGeolocationRequest(ip="8.8.8.8", output=ResponseFormat.XML)
)
print(response.data)  # raw XML string

Bulk Lookup (Paid)

Bulk lookup uses POST and accepts up to 50,000 IPs or domains. Each item in the response is either BulkLookupSuccess or BulkLookupError:

from ipgeolocation import (
    BulkLookupError,
    BulkLookupIpGeolocationRequest,
    BulkLookupSuccess,
)

response = client.bulk_lookup_ip_geolocation(
    BulkLookupIpGeolocationRequest(
        ips=["8.8.8.8", "invalid-ip", "1.1.1.1"],
        include=["security"],
    )
)

for result in response.data:
    if isinstance(result, BulkLookupSuccess):
        print(result.data.ip, result.data.security)  # 8.8.8.8 Security(...)
    elif isinstance(result, BulkLookupError):
        print(result.error.message)  # 'invalid-ip' is not a valid IP address.

Request Options

Single Lookup

Field	Type	Notes
ip	str or None	IPv4, IPv6, or domain (domain is paid only). Omit for caller IP lookup.
lang	Language, str, or None	Response language. Non-English requires a paid plan.
include	sequence of strings	Optional modules to enable. See include values.
fields	sequence of strings	Response field filter. Does not unlock data.
excludes	sequence of strings	Response field filter. Does not unlock data.
output	ResponseFormat or str	"json" (default) or "xml". Typed methods require JSON.
user_agent	str or None	Overrides the outbound User-Agent header. Takes precedence over headers["User-Agent"].
headers	mapping of strings	Custom request headers. Accept is always SDK-managed. Sequence values are sent as one comma-joined header line.

Bulk Lookup

Bulk lookup accepts the same fields as single lookup, plus:

Field	Type	Notes
ips	sequence of strings	Required. Up to 50,000 IPs or domains.

Differences from single lookup: Content-Type: application/json is always set by the SDK. Bulk lookup always requires api_key in the config, even if request_origin is also set.

include Values

Value	What it adds
security	security object (threat score, VPN/proxy/Tor detection, bot detection)
abuse	abuse object (abuse contact info, emails, phone numbers)
user_agent	user_agent object (browser, device, OS parsed from the request User-Agent header)
hostname	hostname field (reverse DNS lookup)
liveHostname	hostname field (live DNS)
hostnameFallbackLive	hostname field (fallback to live DNS)
geo_accuracy	location.locality, location.accuracy_radius, location.confidence
dma_code	location.dma_code
*	All optional modules available on your plan

Supported lang values: en, de, ru, ja, fr, cn, es, cs, it, ko, fa, pt

Response Metadata

Every SDK method returns ApiResponse(data=..., metadata=...).

• Typed single lookup returns IpGeolocationResponse
• Typed bulk lookup returns a list of BulkLookupResult
• Raw methods return the response body as a string

Field	Type	Description
status_code	int	HTTP status code
duration_ms	int	Wall-clock request time in milliseconds, measured by the SDK
credits_charged	int or None	Parsed from the X-Credits-Charged response header
successful_records	int or None	Parsed from the X-Successful-Record response header
raw_headers	read-only mapping	All response headers. Values are tuples of strings.

Header access helpers:

metadata.header_values("Header-Name")        # all values as a tuple
metadata.first_header_value("Header-Name")   # first value or None

JSON Serialization

Use to_json() or to_pretty_json() to serialize SDK objects:

from ipgeolocation import JsonOutputMode, to_pretty_json

# Compact mode (default): omits None fields
print(to_pretty_json(response.data))

# Full mode: includes None fields as null
print(to_pretty_json(response.data, mode=JsonOutputMode.FULL))

Errors

All exceptions inherit from IpGeolocationException. The SDK does not retry failed requests.

Before the request is sent:

• ValidationException for bad config, invalid request parameters, or calling a closed client

Transport problems:

• RequestTimeoutException for timeouts
• TransportException for connection or other HTTP-level failures

API errors (non-2xx responses):

Exception	HTTP Status
BadRequestException	400
UnauthorizedException	401
NotFoundException	404
MethodNotAllowedException	405
PayloadTooLargeException	413
UnsupportedMediaTypeException	415
LockedException	423
RateLimitException	429
ClientClosedRequestException	499
ServerErrorException	5xx
ApiException	Any other non-2xx

All API exceptions have .status_code and .api_message attributes.

Links

• PyPI package
• Python SDK documentation
• API documentation
• Authentication
• Response formats
• Credits and usage
• GitHub repository