ip-api API

Overview

Measurement Record

What actually happened when we called this API from our own infrastructure. Every value below was recorded by the request, not copied from the provider's documentation.

Request

GET http://ip-api.com/json/8.8.8.8

Result

HTTP 200 · application/json · 277 bytes

Response time

109 ms (median of 3) · fastest 100 ms

Browser CORS

Allowed — Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

Recorded

2026-08-10

Fields Returned

Top-level fields present in the response we captured, with the type and value we actually received.

Captured Response

Captured from a real request to http://ip-api.com/json/8.8.8.8 on 2026-08-10. Long arrays and nested objects are truncated to keep the shape readable.

{
  "status": "success",
  "country": "United States",
  "countryCode": "US",
  "region": "VA",
  "regionName": "Virginia",
  "city": "Ashburn",
  "zip": "20149",
  "lat": 39.03,
  "lon": -77.5,
  "timezone": "America/New_York",
  "isp": "Google LLC",
  "org": "Google Public DNS",
  "as": "AS15169 Google LLC",
  "query": "8.8.8.8"
}

Implementation Example

Calls a real endpoint of this API. Replace any placeholder credentials with your own key.

const url = "http://ip-api.com/json/8.8.8.8";
const response = await fetch(url);
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

url = "http://ip-api.com/json/8.8.8.8"
headers = {}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=30)
response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json()
print(data)

curl "http://ip-api.com/json/8.8.8.8"

What Can You Build?

// Geocode an address to latitude/longitude
const address = '1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA';
const response = await fetch(`https://ip-api.com/docs`);
const data = await response.json();
const location = data.results?.[0] || data;
console.log('Latitude:', location.lat || location.latitude);
console.log('Longitude:', location.lon || location.longitude);

// Get location from IP address
const response = await fetch(`https://ip-api.com/docs`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log('Country:', data.country || data.country_name);
console.log('City:', data.city);
console.log('Coordinates:', data.lat || data.latitude, data.lon || data.longitude);

// Get coordinates and calculate distance
const response = await fetch(`https://ip-api.com/docs`);
const data = await response.json();
const loc = data.results?.[0] || data;
const lat1 = loc.lat || loc.latitude || 0;
const lon1 = loc.lon || loc.longitude || 0;
// Haversine distance formula
const R = 6371;
console.log(`Location: ${lat1}, ${lon1}`);

Note: These code examples are AI-generated and unverified. Always refer to the official API documentation for accurate usage.

Common Errors & Troubleshooting

Generated guidance based on this API's documentation, not observed by us. Treat it as a starting point and check against the provider's own error reference.