# IP Address Lookup: Location, Company & Proxy Check (`scrapemint/ip-address-lookup`) Actor

Find out where an IP address is and who owns it. For each IP: country, region, city, timezone, the internet company behind it, and flags for proxy, hosting and mobile. Paste one IP or thousands. Great for logs, fraud checks and analytics. No API key needed.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapemint/ip-address-lookup.md
- **Developed by:** [Ken M](https://apify.com/scrapemint) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 ip looked ups

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## IP Address Lookup: Location, Company & Proxy Check

Find out where an IP address is and who owns it. Paste one IP or thousands and get one clean row per IP: country, region, city, timezone, the internet company behind it, and clear flags for proxy/VPN, hosting/datacenter and mobile networks.

Built for **fraud and security teams, analytics, log analysis and ad tech**. Turn a raw list of IPs from your server logs or signups into locations and risk signals in one run, with no signup and no API key.

### What you get for each IP

- **Location**: country, region, city, ZIP and timezone, with latitude and longitude for maps
- **Who owns it**: the internet service provider, the organisation and the network (ASN)
- **Risk and type flags**:
  - **proxy/VPN**: the IP is a known proxy, VPN or Tor exit
  - **hosting/datacenter**: the IP belongs to a server host, not a home connection (often a bot)
  - **mobile**: the IP is on a mobile carrier network

### Example output

```json
{
  "ip": "8.8.8.8",
  "valid": true,
  "country": "United States",
  "countryCode": "US",
  "region": "Virginia",
  "city": "Ashburn",
  "timezone": "America/New_York",
  "latitude": 39.03,
  "longitude": -77.5,
  "isp": "Google LLC",
  "organization": "Google Public DNS",
  "asn": "AS15169 Google LLC",
  "isProxyOrVpn": false,
  "isHostingOrDatacenter": true,
  "isMobile": false
}
```

### Pricing

**$0.001 per IP located**, and IPs that cannot be located (bad input) are **free**. The first 2 rows of every run are free. Checking 10,000 IPs costs about $10, versus the monthly minimums of commercial IP intelligence APIs.

### How to run it via API

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/scrapemint~ip-address-lookup/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"ips": ["8.8.8.8", "1.1.1.1", "140.82.112.3"]}'
```

### Frequently asked questions

**How accurate is the city?** IP location is accurate to the country almost always, and usually to the region or city. It is an estimate, not a street address, which is normal for all IP location data.

**What are the proxy and hosting flags for?** They help spot traffic that is probably not a real local visitor: VPNs, proxies and datacenter IPs are common signs of bots and fraud.

**IPv6 too?** Yes, both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses work.

### More tools from Scrapemint

- [DNS Records Checker](https://apify.com/scrapemint/dns-records-checker): full DNS report for any domain.
- [SSL Certificate & Subdomain Finder](https://apify.com/scrapemint/ssl-subdomain-finder): find subdomains and check SSL certificates.
- [Email List Checker](https://apify.com/scrapemint/email-list-checker): clean email lists in bulk.

# Actor input Schema

## `ips` (type: `array`):

One IP address per line (IPv4 or IPv6). You can paste thousands, they are looked up in bulk.

## `maxRows` (type: `integer`):

Cap on IPs looked up. Controls total cost. First 2 rows per run are free; invalid IPs are always free.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "ips": [
    "8.8.8.8",
    "1.1.1.1",
    "140.82.112.3",
    "208.67.222.222"
  ],
  "maxRows": 1000
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "ips": [
        "8.8.8.8",
        "1.1.1.1",
        "140.82.112.3",
        "208.67.222.222"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapemint/ip-address-lookup").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "ips": [
        "8.8.8.8",
        "1.1.1.1",
        "140.82.112.3",
        "208.67.222.222",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapemint/ip-address-lookup").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "ips": [
    "8.8.8.8",
    "1.1.1.1",
    "140.82.112.3",
    "208.67.222.222"
  ]
}' |
apify call scrapemint/ip-address-lookup --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=scrapemint/ip-address-lookup",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/OXsPN7jpWDy2lkhLp/builds/cpEfwLbUobxUMCNxN/openapi.json