On: Show HN: A New, Clean Geolocation API

[gsaqui]

Are you able to flag an IP address as an IP coming from a VPN?

[preinheimer → gsaqui]

The folks at http://getipintel.net/ can give you some decent information about wether an IP looks spammy or not.

> Given an IP address, the system will return a probabilistic value (between a value of 0 and 1) of how likely the IP is a VPN / proxy / hosting / bad IP. A value of 1 means that IP is explicitly banned (a web host, VPN, or TOR node) by our dynamic lists.

We've been using it for a while and are pretty happy.

[gsaqui → preinheimer]

Will check this out - thank you.

[achillean → gsaqui]

If you want to know whether an IP is from a VPN, Tor or a compromised server you can do that for free using the Shodan API (https://developer.shodan.io).

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Shodan and identifying the type of connection is something we're often used for.

[boundlessdreamz → achillean]

Which api method exposes that information?

[jonathan-kosgei → gsaqui]

This is something we'd really like to add to our API and something we're working on.

[gsaqui → jonathan-kosgei]

Are you able to flag if the IP is from a TOR network?

[jonathan-kosgei → gsaqui]

Hi gsqaui, our API now supports detecting Tor nodes https://api.ipdata.co/103.10.197.50

[jonathan-kosgei → gsaqui]

You can see all the datapoints we provide by visiting our homepage https://ipdata.co or by making a call in your terminal via curl https://api.ipdata.co

[gsaqui → jonathan-kosgei]

If you are able to add detection for VPN then this is something my company would happily pay for.

[jonathan-kosgei → gsaqui]

Thank you for sharing your need for this. I'm going to make this a priority. If you'd send me an email jonathan at ipdata dot co, just a quick hello, I could keep you up to date on our progress as we develop this.