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FAQ :: GeoIP API


  1. What is GeoIPAPI?
    2. Answer: Geo IP API is an all-in-one site among all the API ‘s. Geo IP API provides its facility through the IP brand. By accurately pinpointing the location of Internet customers and visitors by country, geographic region, down to the granular detail of city in real-time. In addition to these information’s, GeoIP API also finds of the Weather, Time, Currency, Currency Rate globally with respect to USD and Time, horoscope.
  2. What all can GeoIPAPI do ?
    • ONLINE FRAUD DETECTION
    • PROXIMITY ALERTS FOR SOCIAL WEBSITES
    • GENERATE REGION/COUNTRY BASED REPORTS/LOGS
    • CREATE YOUR OWN LOCATION BASED COMMUNITY
    • WEATHER API
    • HOROSCOPE API
    • GEO LOCATION API
    • CURRENCY API
  3. What are the main features of the GeoIPAPI?
    4. Answer: These are the main features of the GeoIPAPI:
    • High precision IP-location data.
    • Large data coverage locally and globally
    • Competitive Pricing.
    • No credit card fraud.
    • Regular updates
  4. what are the main APIs of GeoIPAPI? Discuss it briefly
    5. Answer: These are main APIs of GeoIPAPI: Weather API: This API will find the weather and time of any major city. This tool is ideal for internet users that wish to redirect browsers based on their City, Region or Country. Just pass the name of any major city and country in URL and you get all the required and accurate information in few seconds. Currency API: This API extracts the current currency. All this API needs is the Currency code and it will return its rate with respect to USD. Horoscope API: This API gets the daily, weekly, monthly horoscope of any sun sign by just entering the sun sign in required field and press submit button. Geolocation API: is a service that dynamically redirects internet surfers based on their geographic location. This API will find the air distance (range) in kilometers between two cities. As this API makes use of Haversine Formula to calculate the distance using the latitude and longitude points of both cites, the accuracy is around 90% only. This tool is ideal for internet users that wish to redirect browsers based on their City, Region or Country, using Geolocation API technology.
  5. What is IP Intelligence in GeoIPAPI?
    6. Answer: With IP Intelligence, you can adapt your business (product or service), the content of the website, language, etc according to the geographic IP-location of the visitor, while at the same time obtaining statistical geographic information which permits you to know your customers and visitors better. With IP Intelligence, it is much easier to take informed decisions regarding the direction of your business, segment markets so that language, publicity content, website content etc is provided to the end user in line with his needs, which leads to increased focus and profitability by market segmentation.
  6. How accurate is your GeoIPAPI database?
    7. Answer: Our GeoIP databases are 75% accurate on a country level, state level.
  7. How effective is GeoIPAPI in preventing different types of online fraud?
    8. Answer: GeoIPAPI Fraud detection service is effective because many security checks are implemented by the developer. Suppose If any visitor tries to access the data of the U.S from the India, it will not allowed any visitor to do so and show you an error messages like We believe that you are in India (your IP address appears to be 122.173.7.30) like in Pandora.
  8. What is the pricing in GeoIPAPI?
    9. Answer:
    • $ 15 for 50,000 queries.
    • $ 30 for 125,000 queries.
    • $ 50 for 250,000 queries.
    • $ 120 for 750,000 queries.
  9. Do I get a warning if I am running out of queries?
    10. Answer: Right now Auto renewal services are not there. But a warning email will be sent out when the number of queries falls above 5000.
  10. Will you add more APIs in it?
    11. Answer: In future GeoIPAPI adds more API like language code API.
  11. How often is the database updated?
    12. Answer: Every quarter its database is updated.
  12. I am using one of the GeoIP APIs and having trouble while working...what can I do at that time?
    13. Answer: Through Contact us form you can asked any question about the troubleshooting. Then we will send you mail next 24 hours.
  13. How can I determine the location of a visitor on the world map?
    14. Answer: Geolocation API will find the air distance (range) in kilometers between two cities. As this API makes use of Haversine Formula to calculate the distance using the latitude and longitude points of both cites, the accuracy is around 70%.
  14. How do you keep the database size so small?
    15. Answer: We backup all the old and obsolete information to keep the size of the tables minimum.