API Documentation

Has it ever occurred to you that you are travelling and suddenly you find yourself wondering - Where am I? Sometimes, getting the exact info about your locality can be difficult and troublesome. In order to solve this problem, BigDataCloud has released one of its kind - ...

We have updated our Hazard report metrics to include Apple's iCloud Private Relay service. The new metric iCloudPrivateRelay determines whether the requested IP address was detected as an Apple iCloud Private Relay address.iCloud Private Relay is a new internet privacy service that Apple offers its iCloud+ subscribers. The service hides the IP address of an end user. It allows users to use the internet more privately and securely....

Big tech, or more precisely Ad tech, companies have been heavily criticised for exploiting users’ personal data to serve targetted ads for promoting brands, services and products. The rampant buying and selling of users’ personal data and excessive use of the data have degraded the reputation of big tech companies. For example, ...

Location-based services are playing a crucial role in our digital life. Most service providers must know where their customers are coming from to tailor their offerings and maintain security-related measures. At the other end, most consumers use location-aware devices nowadays, such as GPS-powered mobile devices, and often 'know' their current location with great precision. Therefore, the most accurate way service providers can retrieve their customers' current location is by actively asking them to share it....

One of the key benefits of using IP geolocation or reverse geocoding service is delivering effective content localisation for your application or marketing websites. BigDataCloud’s geolocation APIs already support 148 different world languages used across the world. You can request the data in any preferred language, as long as the data in the requested language is available. ...