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ipinfoio_facts - Retrieve IP geolocation facts of a host’s IP address

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis

  • Gather IP geolocation facts of a host’s IP address using ipinfo.io API

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
http_agent Default:
"ansible-ipinfoio-module/0.0.1"
Set http user agent
timeout Default:
10
HTTP connection timeout in seconds

Notes

Note

Examples

# Retrieve geolocation data of a host's IP address
- name: get IP geolocation data
  ipinfoio_facts:

Returned Facts

Facts returned by this module are added/updated in the hostvars host facts and can be referenced by name just like any other host fact. They do not need to be registered in order to use them.

Fact Returned Description
city
string
City name

Sample:
Mountain View
country
string
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code

Sample:
US
hostname
string
Domain name

Sample:
google-public-dns-a.google.com
ip
string
Public IP address of a host

Sample:
8.8.8.8
loc
string
Latitude and Longitude of the location

Sample:
37.3860,-122.0838
org
string
organization's name

Sample:
AS3356 Level 3 Communications, Inc.
postal
string
Postal code

Sample:
94035
region
string
State or province name

Sample:
California


Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance

This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.

Author

  • Aleksei Kostiuk (@akostyuk)

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