IP geolocation guides

Practical guides on blocking or redirecting by country, verifying crawlers, detecting VPN users and using IP geolocation in JavaScript, Python and PHP.

Tutorial

IP geolocation in JavaScript, Python and PHP

Get the country, city and ISP of a visitor's IP address in Node.js, Python and PHP: finding the real client IP behind proxies, calling the API and caching.

Guide · bots

Verify Googlebot, Bingbot and GPTBot

Fake crawlers pretend to be Googlebot or GPTBot to bypass bot protection. Verify real crawlers with the official IP lists or reverse DNS, with nginx, Cloudflare and code examples.

Guide · fraud prevention

Detect VPN, proxy and Tor users

How VPN and proxy detection works, what to do with flagged users and how to add it to sign-up and checkout flows with an IP security API. With code.

Guide · geo-blocking

Block or redirect visitors by country

Geo-block or geo-redirect visitors by country with Cloudflare rules, nginx and GeoIP2, Next.js middleware or an IP geolocation API in Express. Copy-paste configs.

Comparison

Best IP geolocation APIs in 2026

ipbase, IPinfo, MaxMind GeoIP2, ipstack and ip-api compared: data, free tiers, pricing model and when to use a local database instead of an API.

IP geolocation API

Get this data in your app

ipbase returns location, ISP, ASN, time zone and security flags (VPN, proxy, Tor, data center) for any IPv4 or IPv6 address, up to 100 addresses per request.

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GET https://api.ipbase.com/v2/info?ip=1.1.1.1

{
  "data": {
    "ip": "1.1.1.1",
    "type": "v4",
    "connection": {
      "asn": 13335,
      "organization": "APNIC and Cloudflare DNS Resolver project",
      "isp": "Cloudflare, Inc",
      "range": "1.1.1.0/24"
    },
    "location": {
      "country": { "alpha2": "AU", "name": "Australia" },
      "zip": "4000"
    },
    "security": { "is_vpn": false, "is_tor": false, "threat_score": 0 }
  }
}