IPLocate
IPLocate provides current geolocation, network, privacy, hosting, company, and abuse intelligence for IP addresses.
Verdict
Common use cases
- Triage suspicious login attempts by location
- Debug traffic routing and CDN issues
- Verify user geography during fraud reviews
- Identify VPN and proxy connections
- Map ASN ownership for network analysis
Integration
- Vendor
- IPLocate
- Category
- developer-tools
- Auth
- API_KEY
- Tools
- 1
- Composio slug
iplocate
Tools
- Look Up IP Address
Look up current geolocation, network, ASN, privacy, hosting, company, and abuse intelligence for one IPv4 or IPv6 address. Optionally return only selected fields to reduce the response.
Setup
Setup guide
- 11. In Switchy, open your workspace settings and navigate to the Integrations page. 2. Find IPLocate in the MCP directory and click Connect. 3. You'll be prompted to enter an API key — get yours from the IPLocate dashboard at iplocate.io after signing up for an account. 4. Paste the key into Switchy and click Authorize. 5. Switchy confirms the connection and shows IPLocate as active. 6. Open any Project, type '@IPLocate look up 8.8.8.8' in the chat, and watch it return geolocation and network details to verify the integration works. 7. You can now invoke the tool in any Project where you need IP intelligence — just @mention IPLocate and describe the lookup you want.
What teammates see: by default, memories from IPLocate are scoped to the Project (PROJECT visibility) - you can mark any memory PRIVATE or share it ORG-wide.
Works well with
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How Switchy teams use it
Starter prompts
Investigate Suspicious IP
@IPLocate look up 203.0.113.45 and return all available fields including privacy detection, ASN details, and abuse contact information.
Verify User Location
@IPLocate look up 198.51.100.22 and return only the country, city, and latitude/longitude fields.
Check for VPN Usage
@IPLocate look up 192.0.2.78 and return only the privacy and hosting fields to see if this is a VPN or datacenter IP.
Map ASN Ownership
@IPLocate look up 2001:db8::1 and return the ASN number, organization name, and network range.
Batch Triage Login IPs
@IPLocate look up these IPs one by one: 203.0.113.10, 198.51.100.5, 192.0.2.33. For each, return country, city, and whether it's a known proxy.
Example outputs
Illustrative - representative of the model's voice and quality, not literal recordings.
@IPLocate look up the geolocation and ASN details for 8.8.8.8
The IP address 8.8.8.8 resolves to Mountain View, California, United States (37.4056°N, -122.0775°W). It belongs to Google LLC (AS15169), classified as a hosting/cloud provider. The IP is not flagged as a proxy, VPN, or Tor exit node. Network range: 8.8.8.0/24. This is an illustrative example; actual responses include additional fields like timezone (America/Los_Angeles) and abuse contact information.
This example demonstrates the MCP's core lookup capability, returning geolocation, network ownership, and privacy intelligence in a single call. Requires an API key with sufficient quota. Note that geolocation accuracy varies by IP type—residential IPs typically resolve to city-level, while datacenter IPs may only show the hosting facility's location.
@IPLocate check if 185.220.101.47 is associated with any privacy services or hosting providers
The IP 185.220.101.47 is flagged as a Tor exit node operated by an individual in Germany (AS51167). Privacy classification: Tor relay. Hosting status: true (residential ISP repurposed for relay). Abuse contact: abuse@example.net. This is an illustrative example showing how the MCP surfaces privacy and abuse intelligence—useful for fraud detection, access control, or compliance workflows.
This example highlights the privacy and hosting detection features, which help teams identify traffic from anonymization services, VPNs, or cloud infrastructure. The MCP returns boolean flags and classification labels, but interpreting these requires context—not all Tor/VPN traffic is malicious. Use the abuse contact field to report issues, but verify findings before taking automated action.
@IPLocate retrieve only the country, ASN, and company name for 104.26.10.78 to minimize response size
The IP 104.26.10.78 is registered in the United States under Cloudflare, Inc. (AS13335). This is an illustrative example demonstrating the field-filtering option—by requesting only country, ASN, and company, you reduce payload size and API quota consumption. Full lookups include 20+ fields; selective queries are faster and more cost-effective for high-volume use cases.
This example shows how to use the optional field selection parameter to retrieve only the data you need, reducing both response time and API credit usage. Particularly valuable when integrating IP intelligence into rate-limiting, logging, or analytics pipelines where you don't need the full geolocation dataset. Check the IPLocate documentation for the complete list of available fields and their quota costs.
Use-case deep-dives
When IP geolocation catches suspicious checkout patterns
A 6-person e-commerce team sees chargebacks spike and needs to flag orders from high-risk regions before fulfillment. The IPLocate MCP gives your AI assistant instant access to geolocation, ASN, and hosting intelligence for any IP in a support ticket or order log. During a morning review, the team pastes suspicious order IDs into Switchy; the assistant pulls IP details and flags VPN usage or mismatched billing countries in seconds. This works when you're triaging under 50 orders a day and the context fits in a single chat thread. If you're processing thousands of transactions hourly, you need a fraud platform with batch scoring, not a single-lookup MCP. For small teams doing manual review, this MCP turns IP analysis from a 10-minute detour into a 10-second inline check.
Why this MCP speeds up log analysis for small DevOps teams
A 3-person DevOps team gets an alert about failed SSH attempts from an unfamiliar IP range. Instead of switching to a separate geolocation tool, they drop the IP into Switchy and ask the assistant to summarize the threat profile using the IPLocate MCP. The assistant returns ASN ownership, abuse history, and whether the IP is a known hosting provider—all in one response. This cuts triage time from 5 minutes per IP to under 30 seconds when you're investigating a handful of incidents per week. The single-lookup design breaks down if you're parsing logs with hundreds of unique IPs; at that scale, you need batch enrichment in your SIEM. For teams doing ad-hoc incident response without a dedicated security stack, this MCP makes IP intelligence a natural part of the conversation.
When IP lookup helps route support tickets by region
A 5-person SaaS support team wants to route tickets to the right timezone without asking customers where they are. They use the IPLocate MCP to pull geolocation data from ticket metadata and let the AI assistant suggest the best agent handoff based on country and time. During a ticket review session, the assistant checks IPs in bulk and flags tickets from APAC that landed in the US queue overnight. This works when you're handling 20-40 tickets a day and routing decisions happen in Switchy before they hit your helpdesk. If you're running a 24/7 support operation with auto-assignment rules, you need geolocation baked into your ticketing system, not a lookup MCP. For small teams doing manual triage, this turns geo-routing from guesswork into a one-click assistant call.
Frequently asked
What does the IPLocate MCP do in Switchy?
It lets your team's AI agents look up geolocation, network ownership, ASN details, and abuse intelligence for any IPv4 or IPv6 address. Useful when debugging traffic sources, investigating suspicious activity, or enriching logs with location context. The MCP calls IPLocate's API directly from your Switchy workspace, so agents can answer "where is this IP from?" without you leaving the conversation.
Do I need an IPLocate API key to use this MCP?
Yes. You'll paste your IPLocate API key into Switchy's connection settings. IPLocate offers a free tier with limited lookups per month; paid plans remove rate limits. The key authenticates every lookup request the MCP makes, so keep it scoped to read-only access if your IPLocate account supports granular permissions.
Can the IPLocate MCP block or blacklist IP addresses?
No. It only retrieves intelligence—geolocation, ISP, ASN, abuse history—for a given IP. If you want to act on that data (block an IP in your firewall, add it to a deny list), you'll need a separate integration or manual step. Think of this MCP as reconnaissance, not enforcement.
How does this compare to running curl against IPLocate's API myself?
The MCP saves you from writing scripts or remembering API syntax. Your agent handles the lookup inline during a conversation, formats the response, and can chain it with other tools (like logging to Notion or alerting in Slack). If you're already automating IP checks in CI or cron jobs, keep using the API directly—this is for ad-hoc, conversational workflows.
Who on my team should connect the IPLocate MCP?
Whoever owns your IPLocate account or has the API key. Typically a developer, DevOps engineer, or security analyst. Once connected in Switchy, any team member can ask the AI to look up an IP—they don't need their own IPLocate credentials. Lookups count against your IPLocate plan's monthly quota, not Switchy's limits.