IP to Location Bookmarklet
You want to know more about a specific ip address in your log files or visitor statistics package? And you’re not satisfied with tools like whois or traceroute? There are several online services that use an ip range database to look up the location of an IP address (as far as this info is made available by the ISP). Here some bookmarklets to use two of them, Hostip.info and Ip2Location.com.
Hostip.info is free, uses a freely available database and produces a Google map. Ip2Location uses a commercial database and is free for max 20 requests per day.
IP (to location) Lookup Bookmarklet links
How to install the Bookmarklets
Firefox
- Right-click the bookmarklet link and choose “Bookmark This Link”
- Click the “Create in” dropdown and choose “Bookmarks Toolbar Folder”
- (quick alternative: drag it to your links toolbar…)
- Right-click the bookmarklet link and choose “Add to Favorites”
- Click “Yes” if there is a “May not be safe” popup
- Choose “Links” in the “Create in” pane and click “OK”
How to use the bookmarklet
- if the ip address is on a webpage, select it and click the bookmarklet
- if the ip address is in a logfile, select and copy it, and click the bookmarklet in your browser (without any text selected) – then paste the ip in the prompt
Other services
- There are more similar services – if you prefer another service and produce a bookmarklet for it, point to it in the comments
- Also note that most visitor tracking packages have ip address location lookup built-in. (To some extent, often country-level for free packages) and some services provide visitor location widgets to embed in your html code (Map Stats, CustrMaps) – but that’s a different story.
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6 Comments »
February 19th, 2007 at 01:15
Another good tool for this is http://www.ipgp.net , it has maps too.
February 19th, 2007 at 01:42
Hi Lucian,
Thanks, but unfortunately it doesn’t work with my bookmarklet…
If I convert the POST into a GET action, to have the ip show up in the url, the ip address is not picked up by the script…
(example: http://www.ipgp.net/index.php?ip=213.224.99.100 )
March 10th, 2008 at 02:02
Another short url for finding ip address is http://getyrip.com
April 3rd, 2008 at 17:36
A good site to check the location from IP address is: Ipgp Ip lookup , also you can add a gadget to your website, just copy and paste the code.
June 15th, 2008 at 02:45
Anothe good site is http://www.liveipmap.com
January 13th, 2009 at 19:30
Another alternative to Conversions Tracking tool available on the net is mvispy.com I have been using the service for past few months and it has worked out well for me. I have been able to do live visitor tracking. MVISPY offers a unique combination of features like real-time visitor data, IP name lookup, conversions tracking (3 ways), email alerts, live or proactive chat, tracking web leads from search engine to conversion, insert leads into sales lead systems, determine what pages don’t work & track click fraud – all while determining what people are looking for, what keywords work best.
Some of the features offered by MVISPY that are not offered by Analytics are
- real time tracking on website
- IP look up with company name address and Jigsaw drill down feature
- Tracking conversion 3 different ways with email alerts
- Live pro active chat features that will pop up after a preset number of page views or visitor length on the site and when arrives
at preset page
- SPY shows trails from Search engine to site thru purchase on one display (not done by Google)
- Auto insert of sales leads in sales Lead system
- Determine what pages don’t work by real time bounce data (Gogole has)
- Tracks Click Fraud.