IP Information Checker

A command-line interface (CLI) tool to retrieve IP information from various APIs, including ipinfo.io, ipapi.co, AbuseIPDB, and VirusTotal.

Table of Contents

• Description
• Features
• Installation
• Usage
• Future Work

Description

The IP Information Checker is a Python script designed to retrieve detailed information about IP addresses from various free and reputable sources. The tool supports multiple services including ipinfo.io, ipapi.co, AbuseIPDB, and VirusTotal. It features a menu-driven interface, supports asynchronous API calls.

Features

• Validate IP address format
• Check IP information using multiple free APIs
• Asynchronous API requests for improved performance
• Logging of errors
• Retry mechanism for failed API calls
• Command-line argument support

Installation

1. Install Poetry:

   pip install poetry

2. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/akshayjain-1/ip_checker.git
   

3. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd ip_checker
   

4. Install dependencies:

   poetry install
   

5. Set up environment variables for API keys:

   export ABUSEIPDB_API_KEY="your_abuseipdb_api_key"
   export VIRUSTOTAL_API_KEY="your_virustotal_api_key"
   

Usage

poetry run python ip_checker.py <IP_ADDRESS>

Future Work

• Add support for more APIs
• Implement a caching mechanism to reduce API calls
• Ability to export results to CSV
• Ability to provide multiple IP address in a single command