ipapi - IP Geolocation API

Name: ipapi - IP Geolocation API API
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✓ Official Vendor SpecData EnrichmentAddress ValidationapiKey3 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Resolve an IP address to country, city, time zone, currency, and connection details so an agent can enrich logs or personalise content by location.

Quickstart

Get started with ipapi - IP Geolocation API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"geolocate an IP with ipapi"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with ipapi - IP Geolocation API API.

Resolve any IPv4 or IPv6 address to country, region, city, and ZIP code

Geolocate the requesting IP without supplying it explicitly via /check

Bulk lookup several IPs in one call by comma-separating them in the path

Return time zone, current local time, and GMT offset for an IP

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Explore with Jentic

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Use for: I need to geolocate an IP address, Get the country and city for the requester IP, Look up the time zone and current local time for an IP, Retrieve the currency for the visitor's country

Not supported: Does not handle proxy or VPN detection, domain WHOIS, or threat intelligence — use for IP geolocation, currency, and time-zone lookups only.

ipapi is a hosted IP geolocation service that resolves IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to country, region, city, latitude and longitude, time zone, currency, and connection details. The API exposes three endpoints: a requester-IP lookup, a single-IP lookup, and a bulk lookup that resolves several IPs in one comma-separated request. It is a long-standing alternative for teams that want an HTTPS-only geolocation surface with currency and time-zone fields built into the response.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use ipapi - IP Geolocation API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Currency and Locale Personalisation

E-commerce and SaaS sites can call /check on a request to detect the visitor's country, currency, and time zone in one call, then pre-fill the currency selector and apply locale-specific copy. Bundling currency into the geolocation response avoids a second lookup against a separate ISO data source.

Call /check with no IP from the server-side handler and pre-fill the currency selector with the returned currency_code.

Time Zone-Aware Scheduling

Scheduling and notification platforms can resolve a user's IP to a time zone and local time, then schedule emails or push notifications for a sensible local hour. The response includes the IANA time zone id and the GMT offset so the scheduler does not have to look them up separately.

Look up an IP and return the IANA time zone id along with the next local 09:00 timestamp for a notification.

Bulk Log Enrichment

Operations teams can pass several IPs at once via the bulk endpoint to enrich access logs or audit traces with country, city, ISP, and ASN, which is cheaper than firing one request per IP. The response is keyed by IP so the result merges back into the source row easily.

Bulk-resolve 10 IPs from a log row and return country, city, and ISP for each.

Agent-Driven Visitor Insight

An AI agent connected via Jentic can call /check on a request handler, read the country, currency, and time zone, and pick the right localisation rules without the developer wiring three look-up libraries. The agent searches Jentic by intent rather than juggling ipapi's three endpoints by hand.

On a request handler, call ipapi /check via Jentic and return a JSON object with country, currency_code, and timezone.id.

Key Endpoints

3 endpoints — ipapi is a hosted ip geolocation service that resolves ipv4 and ipv6 addresses to country, region, city, latitude and longitude, time zone, currency, and connection details.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/check

Geolocate the requesting IP

GET

/{ip}

Geolocate a single IP address

GET

/{ips}

Bulk geolocate multiple IPs

GET

/check

Geolocate the requesting IP

GET

/{ip}

Geolocate a single IP address

GET

/{ips}

Bulk geolocate multiple IPs

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

The ipapi access_key is stored encrypted in the Jentic vault and injected as the access_key query parameter at execution time, so the raw key never enters the agent context or logs.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent ('geolocate an IP', 'get currency for visitor') and Jentic returns the ipapi operation with its input schema, exposing the bulk path when several IPs need to be resolved in one call.

Time to first call

Direct ipapi integration: under an hour for the access_key flow. Through Jentic: a few minutes for search, load, execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Alternative

ip-api

ip-api offers a free no-key tier for non-commercial geolocation lookups.

Pick ip-api when the use case is non-commercial and a key-less endpoint is desirable; pick ipapi for paid, HTTPS-only commercial usage.

Alternative

IP2Location.io

IP2Location.io returns geolocation and bundles proxy and VPN flags into the same response.

Pick IP2Location.io when proxy detection is needed alongside geolocation; pick ipapi when currency and time-zone fields matter most.

Complementary

IP2Proxy

IP2Proxy adds anonymous proxy, VPN, and TOR detection that ipapi does not classify.

Use IP2Proxy alongside ipapi when geolocation alone is not enough and you need to flag anonymising networks.

FAQs

Specific to using ipapi - IP Geolocation API API through Jentic.

What authentication does the ipapi API use?

ipapi uses an access_key query parameter on every request. Through Jentic the key is held in the encrypted vault and appended at execution time so the raw key never enters the agent context.

Can ipapi return the currency for the visitor's country?

Yes. The response includes a currency object with the ISO code, English name, plural name, and symbol alongside the geolocation fields, which is useful for currency selectors and pricing display.

Can I bulk lookup IPs in one call?

Yes. Comma-separate the IPs in the path (for example /1.1.1.1,8.8.8.8) and ipapi returns an array keyed by IP. This is the recommended pattern for log-enrichment workloads.

What are the rate limits for the ipapi API?

Free plans cap monthly volume; paid plans raise the cap and unlock HTTPS plus additional response fields. The exact monthly volume per plan is documented at https://ipapi.com and surfaces as quota errors in the response when exhausted.

How do I geolocate an IP through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'geolocate an IP with ipapi', load the schema for GET /{ip}, and execute with the ip parameter. Run pip install jentic, then await client.search, await client.load, await client.execute.

Does ipapi support IPv6?

Yes. The /{ip} endpoint accepts IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and returns the same response shape for both, so an agent can pass either family without branching.