Get only one result out of 9 IP addresses

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Dear All,

I downloaded from github and installed ipinfo_3.3.1_linux_amd64.deb on Debian 12 bookworm.
I created an account with “IPinfo lite” subscription and also a token.

I have the following ip list with 9 IP addresses:

213.162.84.252
89.26.16.81
147.125.80.36
213.33.59.178
213.142.96.19
77.118.37.120
178.165.160.81
108.214.236.114
213.33.53.62
89.144.195.104

I run the following command
cat ip.txt | ipinfo bulk --token $MYTOKEN -f country

and I get the following output:

ip,country
<nil>,
<nil>,
<nil>,
<nil>,
213.162.84.252,AT
<nil>,
<nil>,
<nil>,
<nil>,

But when I upload this file to /tools/map I get a useful result with 9 IPs worldwide, 8 from AT and one from US.

In the first attempt I thought only the first line will be taken.
But independent how this file is sorted I get only this single IP listed.
Is this a license limitation that I get only one result ?
Any feedback is welcome.

Kind regards
Hans

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Hi Hans,

Thank you for your question. There is probably a bug in the CLI. I have flagged this to the team.

I would highly recommend the bulk API endpoint directly here, please: https://ipinfo.io/developers/advanced-usage#bulkbatch-api

Considering you want the country information, use the IPinfo Lite API service here.

cat ip.txt | curl -XPOST --data-binary @- https://api.ipinfo.io/batch/lite?token=$TOKEN

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As you want only the country code information use jq here.

$ cat ip.txt | curl -s -XPOST --data-binary @- https://api.ipinfo.io/batch/lite?token=$TOKEN | jq -r 'to_entries[] | "\(.value.ip),\(.value.country_code)"'

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The IPinfo Lite API supports unlimited requests (trillions/billions), so do not worry about usage. It is not related to licensing. The bulk API endpoint supports 1,000 IPs/requests at a time. If you need more enrichment, use it asynchronously.

Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you.

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Hi Abdullah,

many thanks for your swift and very useful feedback. Your recommended method works for me.
Is this local installed version of ipinfo program also limited with 1000 IP’s per bulk request ?

Kind regards
Hans

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Hi Hans,

The CLI actually natively supports making asynchronous requests to the bulk API when the lookup IP addresses are more than 1,000. So, you can make any number of requests, it will actually break them down to batches of 1,000 requests each and make those requests asyncronously to the bulk API.

— Abdullah | DevRel, IPinfo