[ta1243]

Nice,

I currently do "curl ipinfo.io" which returns json, and seems to use a more accurate geo lookup (based on the hotel wifi I'm currently on). It doesn't report the network though, and the ASN is a string of asn and name, no org or country, so that's a bonus.

However

  curl ip.guide

just returns blank (there's a redirect). If you follow the redirect with -L the json isn't pretty-printed.

[reincoder]

I work for IPinfo.

>the ASN is a string of asn and name, no org or country

Yeah detailed ASN information on the API level is available on paid tiers.

However, we have a free IP to ASN Country database that is updated daily and provides full accuracy. That database provides ASN, AS organization, and AS domain information.

I think the reason we don't have more ASN details on the API even though we provide more information for free in the database is because of the target audience and usability of the IP metadata.

Our API allows for tokenless API access for up to 1,000 request/day. There is no compromise with data accuracy. The goal is to be generally useful and extremely fast. Detailed ASN information is still freely accessible from the website, though. So, we have to balance out free API, free website information and paid API/database.

I have been reaching out to folks to adopt the free IP to Country ASN database, as it is free to use and provides full accuracy. If anyone wants to build a public API on top of the IPinfo free database that return more ASN information available there, they are more than welcome to that!

[jftuga]

> Our API allows for tokenless API access for up to 1,000 request/day.

Thank you for this! Much appreciated!

I am sure there are tons of similar programs, but here is one I wrote:

https://github.com/jftuga/ipinfo

I added on a distance column.

Just yesterday, I added this: brew install jftuga/tap/ipinfo

[reincoder]

The pleasure is all ours. Your tool is really awesome. I have bookmarked it. It addresses a very practical questions users have about distance calculation. Now I have the right tool to recommend to users.

Would it be possible to allow access token usage in the tool, please?

[jftuga]

Yes. I would accept a PR for this.

[reincoder]

Really appreciate it! Thank you very much. I will write a PR ASAP.

[bswinnerton]

You'll have to follow the redirects since the site doesn't support HTTP, but just shipped pretty-printing.

[tuga]

Redirection from http to https is trivial on most http servers (nginx, apache, etc)