Bulk API call

[dan]

I need to check a couple hundred ip's around once a week. I wrote a script that just does one api call for each ip but I don't want to hammer the servers. Is there any bulk api call I can make that's easier on the servers?

Doing file_get_contents("http://www.ipinfodb.com/ip_query.php?ip=$ip&output=xml&timezone=false"); 500 times just seems to inefficient.

[marchost]

Hi, using ip_query2.php you can do up to 25 lookup.

http://ipinfodb.com/ip_query2.php?ip=74.125.45.100,206.190.60.37&timezone=false (http://ipinfodb.com/ip_location_api.php)

The PHP class available will do 25 lookup at a time automatically...

Marc

[dan]

So using that class if I have a loop that does a bunch of $geolocation->setIP("66.135.205.14")

It will automatically group 25 ips per call when I do $geolocation->getGeoLocation(); ?

[marchost]

Yes, you can run a loop for all your IP but they will not be grouped by 25 in the output.

Let say you have 120 IP, the class will do 5 calls and the output will be an array from 0-119 (maybe 1-120...)

you simply have to do something like

foreach($ips as $ip){
$geolocation->setIP($ip)
}