apipick-ip-geolocation_skill

Overview

This skill looks up geographic and network information for any IPv4 or IPv6 address using the apipick IP Geolocation API. It returns country, continent, city, latitude/longitude, timezone, currency, ISP, and ASN. Omit the IP parameter to geolocate the caller’s public IP; an apipick API key is required.

How this skill works

The skill sends a GET request to the apipick IP Geolocation endpoint with your x-api-key header and optional ip query parameter. The API responds with structured data including country_code, country_name, continent, city, coordinates, timezone, currency, isp, and asn. The skill parses the response and presents the results in a readable format, handling common API errors and credit usage info.

When to use it

• Determine the country or city for a given IP address
• Find the ISP or ASN associated with an IP for network troubleshooting
• Lookup timezone and currency for a remote user or server IP
• Check your own public IP location by omitting the ip parameter
• Validate whether an IP is public and can be geolocated

Best practices

• Store your apipick API key in an environment variable (e.g., APIPICK_API_KEY) and never hard-code it
• Handle null or empty city/coordinate fields; some IPs lack precise location data
• Respect rate limits and track remaining_credits from the API response to avoid interruption
• Validate IPv4/IPv6 format client-side to reduce bad-request errors (400)
• Provide clear fallbacks when the API returns 404 or 503 (e.g., retry later or show best-effort info)

Example use cases

• Security: map suspicious IPs to country/ISP for incident triage
• Operations: verify the geographic location of remote servers or cloud endpoints
• Compliance: check where user traffic appears to originate for regional policy decisions
• Support: tell a customer where their public IP resolves to and which ISP/ASN they’re on
• Analytics enrichment: append timezone/currency to IP-based user records