Client for the 'IPGeolocation.io IP Location API'.

ipgeolocation

R client for the IPGeolocation.io IP Location API. This package provides a minimal interface to query the IPGeolocation.io IP Location API from R.

Installation

Until published on CRAN:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("ipgeolocation/ipgeolocation-r")

Once available on CRAN:

install.packages("ipgeolocation")

API Key

An API key is required. You can obtain one from https://ipgeolocation.io/.

It is recommended to store the API key in an environment variable:

Sys.setenv(IPGEOLOCATION_API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY")
api_key <- Sys.getenv("IPGEOLOCATION_API_KEY")

Basic Usage

library(ipgeolocation)

result <- ipgeo(
  ip      = "8.8.8.8",
  api_key = api_key
)

str(result)

Selecting Specific Fields (fields)

The fields parameter allows you to return only selected objects or nested fields. It supports:

• Entire objects (e.g., "location")
• Nested fields using dot notation (e.g., "location.city")

You may provide either a character vector or a comma-separated string.

# Entire object
ipgeo(ip = "8.8.8.8", api_key = api_key,
      fields = "location")

# Nested field
ipgeo(ip = "8.8.8.8", api_key = api_key,
      fields = "location.city")

# Multiple fields
ipgeo(ip = "8.8.8.8", api_key = api_key,
      fields = c("location", "location.city"))

# Comma-separated string
ipgeo(ip = "8.8.8.8", api_key = api_key,
      fields = "location,security")

Excluding Fields (excludes)

The excludes parameter removes specific objects or nested fields from the default response. It supports entire objects and dot notation for nested fields.

# Exclude entire object
ipgeo(ip = "8.8.8.8", api_key = api_key,
      excludes = "security")

# Exclude nested field
ipgeo(ip = "8.8.8.8", api_key = api_key,
      excludes = "location.zipcode")

# Multiple exclusions
ipgeo(ip = "8.8.8.8", api_key = api_key,
      excludes = c("location.zipcode", "continent_code"))

Including Additional Modules (include)

The include parameter requests additional modules not part of the default response. Supported module names are "hostname", "security", "dma_code", "abuse", "geo_accuracy", and "user_agent".

Note: Dot notation is not supported for include. Comma-separated values and character vectors are accepted. Availability depends on your API plan.

ipgeo(
  ip      = "8.8.8.8",
  api_key = api_key,
  include = "security"
)

ipgeo(
  ip      = "8.8.8.8",
  api_key = api_key,
  include = c("security", "hostname")
)

Combining Parameters

fields, excludes, and include can be used together:

ipgeo(
  ip      = "8.8.8.8",
  api_key = api_key,
  fields  = c("location", "location.city"),
  excludes = "location.zipcode",
  include  = "security"
)

Error Handling

The function validates parameter types, normalizes vectors to comma-separated strings, fails gracefully if the API is unreachable, and returns parsed JSON as an R list.

Function Reference

ipgeo()

Returns: A list parsed from the JSON API response.

License

MIT.