On Google Spreadsheet, how do you call the CIty, Country of an IP?

Question

I would like to know if there is a formula/script one could use on Google Spreadsheet to obtain the City,Location of an array of IP addresses.

i.e lets imagine that each cell on column A has 100 IP addresses, what formula/script should I use on column B to get the respective city and location?

Answer 1

After some digging I've figured out how to do this.

1. Copy the import_json_appsscript.js script on https://gist.github.com/chrislkeller/5719258. This will be the script that will create the ImportJSON() function to a Google spreadsheet

2. Go to Google spreadsheet, on the menu bar got to Tools > Script Editor

3. Copy paste import_json_appsscript.js into the Script Editor and save it, Double check that you can see the ImportJSON() function on the Select function drop down menu.

4. On the Spreadsheet use function =ImportJSON(url, query, options), for example =ImportJSON("http://freegeoip.net/json/75.148.30.137", "/city", "noHeaders") to retrieve Baltimore from the FreeGeoIP call.

Hope that helps, it certainly answers my question.

Answer 2

The easiest way to do this via an external service. IPInfo supports requesting a single field, so you can actually do this without using any addon (via IMPORTDATA function). Quick example:

For country: =IMPORTDATA("https://ipinfo.io/" & A1 & "/country")

For city: =IMPORTDATA("https://ipinfo.io/" & A1 & "/country")

Here A1 is IP address cell.

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