Show HN: Free IP API – Free, Fast and Reliable IP Geolocation API

Category: infrastructure

Tags: ip-geolocation, api, free-service

Score: 4.3/10 (Innovation: 3, Technical: 4, Documentation: 5, Utility: 6)

This project provides a free, rate-limited IP geolocation API offering endpoints for IP lookup, country data, timezones, distance calculation, proxy detection, and bulk lookups. It's interesting for its convenience as a free, no-account-required service with commercial use allowed, but its core functionality is not novel.

Target audience: backend devs

Repository: https://freeipapi.com

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