IP2Trace Python is a Python tool allowing user to get IP address information such as country, region, city, latitude, longitude, zip code, time zone, ISP, domain name, connection type, area code, weather, mobile network, elevation, usage type, address type, IAB category, district, autonomous system number (ASN) and autonomous system (AS) from traceroute probes IP address.
Note: This tool requires Python 2.7, or Python 3.5 or later.
You can install this tool by using pip in Windows or Linux. To install this tool in Windows and Linux, just type pip install IP2Trace in your console and IP2Trace will be installed in your machine.
Note: This tool require IP2Location library to work with. If pip did not install the dependency for you, you can manually install it by using pip install IP2Location.
Usage: ip2tracepy -p [IP ADDRESS/HOSTNAME] -d [IP2LOCATION BIN DATA PATH] [OPTIONS]
or: ip2tracepy [IP ADDRESS/HOSTNAME] -d [IP2LOCATION BIN DATA PATH] [OPTIONS]
-p, --ip
Specify an IP address or hostname.
The -p/--ip can be omitted if the IP address or hostname is defined in the first parameter.
-d, --database
Specify the path of IP2Location BIN database file. You can download the latest free IP2Location BIN database from https://lite.ip2location.com.
If the database filename is specified but without the path, ip2tracepy will search the database file in /usr/local/share/ip2location/ for Linux or C:\Users\(your_Windows_username)\Documents\ for Windows.
-t, --ttl
Set the max number of hops. (Default: 30)
-o, --output
Set the desired IP2Location BIN database columns to output with.
Available columns are: country_code, country_name, region_name, city_name, isp, latitude, longitude, domain, zip_code, time_zone, net_speed, idd_code, area_code, weather_station_code, weather_station_name, mcc, mnc, mobile_brand, elevation, usage_type, address_type, category, district, asn, as_name.
-a, --all
Print all the column(s) available based on the BIN file used.
-h, -?, --help
Display this guide.
-v, --version
Print the version of the IP2Location version.
Traceroute an IP address.
ip2tracepy 8.8.8.8 -d /usr/local/share/ip2location/DB3.BIN -aExample output:
IP2Location Geolocation Traceroute (ip2trace) Version 3.2.0
Copyright (c) 2021 - 2024 IP2Location.com [MIT License]
https://www.ip2location.com/free/traceroute-application
Traceroute to dns.google ( 8.8.8.8 )
1 37.123.114.1 0.3853ms ["GB","United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland","England","London"]
2 10.10.32.132 0.4084ms ["-","-","-","-"]
3 10.10.32.17 0.2673ms ["-","-","-","-"]
4 212.78.92.2 0.5546ms ["GB","United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland","England","London"]
5 98.158.181.98 1.8706ms ["US","United States of America","New York","New York City"]
6 195.66.236.125 0.5715ms ["GB","United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland","England","London"]
7 108.170.246.129 0.5193ms ["US","United States of America","California","Mountain View"]
8 108.170.232.97 0.4749ms ["US","United States of America","California","Mountain View"]
9 8.8.8.8 0.5693ms ["US","United States of America","California","Mountain View"]Traceroute by hostname
ip2tracepy google.com -d /usr/local/share/ip2location/DB3.BIN -aExample output:
IP2Location Geolocation Traceroute (ip2trace) Version 3.2.0
Copyright (c) 2021 - 2024 IP2Location.com [MIT License]
https://www.ip2location.com/free/traceroute-application
Traceroute to dns.google ( 8.8.8.8 )
1 37.123.114.1 0.3529ms ["GB","United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland","England","London"]
2 10.10.32.131 0.3686ms ["-","-","-","-"]
3 10.10.32.17 0.2663ms ["-","-","-","-"]
4 212.78.92.2 19.7358ms ["GB","United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland","England","London"]
5 98.158.181.98 9.2373ms ["US","United States of America","New York","New York City"]
6 195.66.236.125 0.5388ms ["GB","United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland","England","London"]
7 108.170.246.161 1.6131ms ["US","United States of America","California","Mountain View"]
8 172.253.65.211 1.2376ms ["US","United States of America","California","Mountain View"]
9 216.58.213.14 0.5167ms ["US","United States of America","California","Mountain View"]- Download free IP2Location LITE databases at https://lite.ip2location.com
- For more accurate commercial database, please refer to https://www.ip2location.com
One you have obtained your download token, you can download the the database using wget as below:
wget "https://www.ip2location.com/download?token={DOWNLOAD_TOKEN}&file={DATABASE_CODE}"Email: support@ip2location.com URL: https://www.ip2location.com