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"field": "database pricing (ip-to-location-isp)",
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},
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"field": "hipaa / iso_27001 / pci_dss",
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"field": "known_restrictions",
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{
"field": "documented_rate_limits",
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"field": "price_basis",
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"field": "stability",
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"field": "vendor_description",
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"url": "https://db-ip.com/api/core",
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"confidence": "high"
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"field": "database pricing (ip-to-country)",
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},
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"field": "database pricing (ip-to-isp)",
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"field": "free_tier_available / free_tier_details",
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"excerpt": "limited to 500 daily requests",
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},
{
"field": "free_tier_available / free_tier_details",
"url": "https://db-ip.com/db/ip-to-country",
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"confidence": "high"
},
{
"field": "sla_published",
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"excerpt": "Premium: 99.95% uptime guarantee … Enterprise: 99.99% uptime guarantee",
"confidence": "high"
},
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"field": "gdpr",
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"excerpt": "If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted.",
"confidence": "high"
},
{
"field": "hipaa / iso_27001 / pci_dss",
"url": "https://db-ip.com/tos.php",
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"field": "known_restrictions",
"url": "https://db-ip.com/tos.php",
"excerpt": "usage of the database to offer free or commercial IP geolocation API services or any other related service that would duplicate or compete with the services offered by DB-IP",
"confidence": "high"
},
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"field": "documented_rate_limits",
"url": "https://db-ip.com/api/doc.php",
"excerpt": "Free users can batch 32 queries per API request… Paid keys can batch 256 queries per API request. Batch queries receive a 10% quota bonus.",
"confidence": "high"
},
{
"field": "supported_actions",
"url": "https://db-ip.com/api/doc.php",
"excerpt": "Single IP lookup: /v2/{apiKey}/{ipAddress}… Batch queries: /v2/{apiKey}/{ipAddressList}… AS details by IP: /v2/{apiKey}/as/{ipAddress}… AS details by number: /v2/{apiKey}/as/{asNumber}",
"confidence": "high"
},
{
"field": "base_url",
"url": "https://db-ip.com/api/doc.php",
"excerpt": "http://api.db-ip.com/v2/{apiKey}/{ipAddress}",
"confidence": "high"
},
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"field": "api_version",
"url": "https://db-ip.com/api/doc.php",
"excerpt": "version 2 (r5578)",
"confidence": "high"
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"field": "error_format",
"url": "https://db-ip.com/api/doc.php",
"excerpt": "The server responds with an error object consisting of two properties, errorCode and error",
"confidence": "high"
},
{
"field": "rate_limit_requests",
"url": "https://db-ip.com/api/basic",
"excerpt": "Starter: 2,000–50,000 requests/day; Premium: 200,000–1,000,000 requests/day; Enterprise: Unlimited requests/day",
"confidence": "high"
},
{
"field": "sdk_packages",
"url": "https://github.com/dbip/api-client",
"excerpt": "This is the officially supported PHP 7.x client library for the db-ip.com API services.",
"confidence": "high"
},
{
"field": "notable_customers",
"url": "https://db-ip.com/",
"excerpt": "Trusted by thousands of happy customers",
"confidence": "medium"
},
{
"field": "launched_at",
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"confidence": "high"
},
{
"field": "data_retention_policy_url",
"url": "https://db-ip.com/privacy.php",
"excerpt": "When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.",
"confidence": "high"
},
{
"field": "requires_verification",
"url": "https://db-ip.com/api/doc.php",
"excerpt": "Your API key or the string \"free\" for the free API",
"confidence": "high"
}
],
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"MCP server",
"sandbox/test environment",
"webhooks",
"starting_price_usd",
"ga_date",
"sla_url",
"deprecation_policy_url",
"webhook_signing",
"webhook_events_url",
"idempotency_supported",
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"endpoints": [
{
"action": "review",
"label": "Leave a review or comment",
"method": "POST",
"url": "https://apio.sh/api/feedback/db-ip",
"example_body": {
"kind": "review",
"rating": 5,
"body": "Your experience with this API…"
}
},
{
"action": "field_edit",
"label": "Suggest a correction to a field (cite a source)",
"method": "POST",
"url": "https://apio.sh/api/suggest/db-ip/{field}",
"example_body": {
"value": "corrected value",
"citations": [
{
"url": "https://source.example/page",
"excerpt": "supporting quote"
}
],
"note": "what changed and why"
}
},
{
"action": "new_api",
"label": "Suggest a new API to add",
"method": "POST",
"url": "https://apio.sh/api/suggest/api",
"example_body": {
"value": {
"name": "Acme API",
"website_url": "https://acme.example"
},
"citations": [
{
"url": "https://acme.example"
}
]
}
},
{
"action": "token",
"label": "Optional - raise your rate limit",
"method": "GET",
"url": "https://apio.sh/api/feedback/token"
}
]
}
}