This is the official CLI for the IPinfo.io IP address API, allowing you to:
- Look up IP details in bulk or one-by-one.
- Look up ASN details.
- Summarize the details of up to 1000 IPs at a time.
- Open a map of IP locations for any set of IPs.
- Filter IPv4 & IPv6 addresses from any input.
- Print out IP lists for any CIDR or IP range.
- And more!
The ipinfo CLI is available for download via multiple mechanisms.
brew install ipinfo-cliOR to install the latest amd64 version without automatic updates:
curl -Ls https://github.com/ipinfo/cli/releases/download/ipinfo-3.3.1/macos.sh | shNote: this installs our full suite of binaries and keeps them up-to-date.
echo "deb [trusted=yes] https://ppa.ipinfo.net/ /" | sudo tee "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ipinfo.ppa.list" sudo apt update sudo apt install ipinfoNote: this is a one-time installation; updates are not automatic. Use the PPA for automatic updates.
curl -Ls https://github.com/ipinfo/cli/releases/download/ipinfo-3.3.1/deb.sh | shOR
curl -LO https://github.com/ipinfo/cli/releases/download/ipinfo-3.3.1/ipinfo_3.3.1_linux_{arch}.deb sudo dpkg -i ipinfo_3.3.1_linux_{arch}.debwhere {arch} can be 386, amd64, arm, or arm64.
cd /usr/ports/net/ipinfo-cli && make install cleangit clone https://aur.archlinux.org/ipinfo-cli.git makepkg -siNote: run powershell as administrator before executing this command.
iwr -useb https://github.com/ipinfo/cli/releases/download/ipinfo-3.3.1/windows.ps1 | iexscoop install ipinfo-clidocker run --rm -it ipinfo/ipinfo:3.3.1To save the CLI's config, add -v "/path_to_config:/root/.config/ipinfo". For example, the following command saves the config to the ipinfo directory in the current working directory.
docker run --rm -it -v "$PWD/ipinfo:/root/.config/ipinfo" ipinfo/ipinfo:3.3.1Make sure that $GOPATH/bin is in your $PATH, because that's where this gets installed:
go install github.com/ipinfo/cli/ipinfo@latestThe pre-built binaries for all platforms are available on GitHub via artifacts in releases. You need to simply download, unpack and move them to your shell's binary search path.
The following OS & arch combinations are supported (if you use one not listed on here, please open an issue):
darwin_amd64 darwin_arm64 dragonfly_amd64 freebsd_386 freebsd_amd64 freebsd_arm freebsd_arm64 linux_386 linux_amd64 linux_arm linux_arm64 netbsd_386 netbsd_amd64 netbsd_arm netbsd_arm64 openbsd_386 openbsd_amd64 openbsd_arm openbsd_arm64 solaris_amd64 windows_386 windows_amd64 windows_arm windows_arm64 After choosing a platform PLAT from above, run:
# for Windows, use ".zip" instead of ".tar.gz" curl -LO https://github.com/ipinfo/cli/releases/download/ipinfo-3.3.1/ipinfo_3.3.1_${PLAT}.tar.gz # OR wget https://github.com/ipinfo/cli/releases/download/ipinfo-3.3.1/ipinfo_3.3.1_${PLAT}.tar.gz tar -xvf ipinfo_3.3.1_${PLAT}.tar.gz sudo mv ipinfo_3.3.1_${PLAT} /usr/local/bin/ipinfoInstalling from source requires at least the Golang version specified in go.mod. You can install the Golang toolchain from the official site.
Once the correct Golang version is installed, simply clone the repository and install the binary:
git clone https://github.com/ipinfo/cli ipinfo-cli cd ipinfo-cli go install ./ipinfo/ $GOPATH/bin/ipinfoYou can add $GOPATH/bin to your $PATH to access ipinfo directly from anywhere.
Alternatively, you can do the following to output the binary somewhere specific:
git clone https://github.com/ipinfo/cli ipinfo-cli cd ipinfo-cli go build -o <path> ./ipinfo/Replace <path> with the required location.
The ipinfo CLI has some subcommands like grepip, grepdomain, matchip, prips, cidr2range, cidr2ip, range2cidr, range2ip, splitcidr, randip and mmdb which are also shipped as standalone binaries.
These binaries are available via all the same installation methods as mentioned above for ipinfo, except you must change only the name to the name of the subcommand, and choose the appropriate version.
Currently these subcommands are separately shipped:
| CLI | Version |
|---|---|
| grepip | 1.2.3 |
| grepdomain | 1.0.0 |
| matchip | 1.0.0 |
| prips | 1.0.0 |
| cidr2range | 1.2.0 |
| cidr2ip | 1.0.0 |
| range2cidr | 1.3.0 |
| range2ip | 1.0.0 |
| randip | 1.1.0 |
| splitcidr | 1.0.0 |
| mmdb | 1.4.2 |
This will help you quickly get started with the ipinfo CLI.
By default, invoking the CLI shows a help message:
ipinfoIf you have a token, log in with it first. You can continue without a token, but there will be limited data output and some features (like bulk lookups) will not be available. Get your token for free at https://ipinfo.io/signup.
ipinfo initYou can quickly look up details of your own IP with myip:
ipinfo myipYou can see the details of any IP by specifying it:
ipinfo 8.8.8.8You can pipe IPs in and get their results in bulk (this requires a token):
cat ips.txt | ipinfo | lessHere's the CSV version of that:
cat ips.txt | ipinfo -c | lessIn case you only needed a single field from a bunch of IPs:
cat ips.txt | ipinfo -f hostnameThe above commands implicitly run the bulk subcommand on the input. You can manually specify bulk and input IPs on the command line:
ipinfo bulk 1.1.1.0/30 8.8.8.0/30 9.9.9.0/30 | lessIP details can be summarized similar to what's provided by https://ipinfo.io/tools/summarize-ips:
cat lk-ips.txt | ipinfo summarizeThere are many more features available, so for full details, consult the -h or --help message for each command. For example:
ipinfo 8.8.8.8 --helpAuto-completion is supported for at least the following shells:
bash zsh fish NOTE: it may work for other shells as well because the implementation is in Golang and is not necessarily shell-specific.
Installing auto-completions is as simple as running one command (works for bash, zsh and fish shells):
ipinfo completion installIf you want to customize the installation process (e.g. in case the auto-installation doesn't work as expected), you can request the actual completion script for each shell:
# get bash completion script ipinfo completion bash # get zsh completion script ipinfo completion zsh # get fish completion script ipinfo completion fishIf your shell is not listed here, you can open an issue.
Note that as long as the COMP_LINE environment variable is provided to the binary itself, it will output completion results. So if your shell provides a way to pass COMP_LINE on auto-completion attempts to a binary, then have your shell do that with the ipinfo binary itself (or any of our binaries).
The amount of data you get back per lookup depends upon how much data you have enabled on your token via the https://ipinfo.io site.
If you have an account, see our plans and addons.
All examples in this document use a token with all data enabled.
All our CLIs respect either the --nocolor flag or the NO_COLOR environment variable to disable color output.
To enable color support for the Windows command prompt, run the following to enable Console Virtual Terminal Sequences.
REG ADD HKCU\CONSOLE /f /v VirtualTerminalLevel /t REG_DWORD /d 1You can disable this by running the following:
REG DELETE HKCU\CONSOLE /f /v VirtualTerminalLevelThere are official IPinfo client libraries available for many languages including PHP, Python, Go, Java, Ruby, and many popular frameworks such as Django, Rails and Laravel. There are also many third party libraries and integrations available for our API.
See https://ipinfo.io/developers/libraries for more details.
Founded in 2013, IPinfo prides itself on being the most reliable, accurate, and in-depth source of IP address data available anywhere. We process terabytes of data to produce our custom IP geolocation, company, carrier, VPN detection, hosted domains, and IP type data sets. Our API handles over 40 billion requests a month for 100,000 businesses and developers.







