Network by IP Address API

Introduction

This API returns detailed information about the active network a specific IP address belongs to, including Autonomous Systems (AS) that announce and serve that network.

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  • BGP data: updated every 2 hours
  • Registry data: updated at least once a day

Example Response

The response is only available in JSON format. The below response should be expected for the following request:


https://api.bigdatacloud.net/data/network-by-ip


Awaiting request submission...

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Request Format

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Parameter Your Input Value Description
ip IPv4 IP address in a string or numeric format. If omitted, the caller’s IP address is assumed
localityLanguage

Preferred language for locality names in ISO 639-1 format, such as 'en' for English, 'es' for Spanish etc. Please note: 148 common world languages are supported, but not all languages are available for every location. If requested language is not available for a requested location it will default to English, if no English is available, the native, local names will be provided
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The live query

https://api.bigdatacloud.net/data/network-by-ip


CURL Example

curl -X GET --header 'Accept: application/json' 'https://api.bigdatacloud.net/data/network-by-ip'


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Response

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Response Format

Field

Data type

Description

ip

string

Requested IPv4 IP address in a string format

registry

string

The Regional Internet Registry (RIR) the network is registered with

registryStatus

string

Registration status

registeredCountry

string

Registered Country ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 code

registeredCountryName

string

Registered Country name localised to the language is as defined by ‘localityLanguage’ request parameter

organisation

string

Registered for

isReachableGlobally

boolean

Indicates if the network was announced on BGP and reachable globally or not

isBogon

boolean

Indicates if the network in bogon

bgpPrefix

string

The latest BGP prefix announcement for the current network

bgpPrefixNetworkAddress

string

BGP prefix network (the first) address

bgpPrefixLastAddress

string

BGP prefix last address

totalAddresses

32 bit unsigned integer

Total number of IP addresses in the Network

carriers

Array of <Carrier> objects

List of Autonomous Systems (AS) announcing this network on BGP

viaCarriers

Array of <CarrierShort> objects

List of Autonomous Systems (AS) detected at the last hop before the announced parties

API Endpoint

Endpoint: /data/network-by-ip
Full URL: https://api.bigdatacloud.net/data/network-by-ip

Data Objects

Carrier object

Field

Data type

Description

asn

string

Autonomous System Number string

asnNumeric

32 bit unsigned integer

Autonomous System Number

organisation

string

Registered Organisation

name

string

Registered name

registry

string

The Regional Internet Registry (RIR) the AS is registered with

registeredCountry

string

Registered Country ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 code

registeredCountryName

string

Registered Country localised name. The language is as defined by 'localityLanguage' request parameter

registrationDate

string

Registration date in “yyyy-mm-dd” format

registrationLastChange

string

Registration modification date in “yyyy-mm-dd” format

totalIpv4Addresses

32 bit unsigned integer

Total number of IP addresses announced by the AS

totalIpv4Prefixes

32 bit unsigned integer

Total number of BGP prefixes announced by the AS

totalIpv4BogonPrefixes

32 bit unsigned integer

Total number of bogon prefixes announced by the AS

rank

32 bit unsigned integer

World rank by total number of IP addresses announced

rankText

string

World rank by total number of IP addresses announced including total

CarrierShort object

Field

Data type

Description

asn

string

Autonomous System Number string

asnNumeric

32 bit unsigned integer

Autonomous System Number

organisation

string

Registered Organisation

name

string

Registered name

registry

string

The Regional Internet Registry (RIR) the AS is registered with

registeredCountry

string

Registered Country ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 code

registeredCountryName

string

Registered Country localised name. The language is as defined by ‘localityLanguage’ request parameter

rank

32 bit unsigned integer

World rank by total number of IP addresses announced

 

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