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community.general.ipinfoio_facts – Retrieve IP geolocation facts of a host’s IP address

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.0.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.ipinfoio_facts.

Synopsis

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

Parameters

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

Notes

Note

Examples

# Retrieve geolocation data of a host's IP address
- name: Get IP geolocation data
  community.general.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 / elements=string
success
City name

Sample:
Mountain View
country
string / elements=string
success
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code

Sample:
US
hostname
string / elements=string
success
Domain name

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

Sample:
8.8.8.8
loc
string / elements=string
success
Latitude and Longitude of the location

Sample:
37.3860,-122.0838
org
string / elements=string
success
organization's name

Sample:
AS3356 Level 3 Communications, Inc.
postal
string / elements=string
success
Postal code

Sample:
94035
region
string / elements=string
success
State or province name

Sample:
California


Authors

  • Aleksei Kostiuk (@akostyuk)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.11/collections/community/general/ipinfoio_facts_module.html