AndrewCopeland

>1/ needs authenticationless way to search. all other ip look up tools don't require an account for me to test this. I'm not going to register.

Okay I will look into a solution.

2/ I've tried blocking vpn or proxy users (by ip hosting provider), but found too many false positives. Using a VPN is common for IT professionals or consumers trying to 'protect' their privacy and this impacted the growth of my app.

That good to know, I do not find that I have a lot of false postivies but I would imagine it all depends on audience.

>How is your tool better at detecting a bot vs a human using a vpn?

It does not know the difference as or right now. I was thinking about adding a user-agent validation as well which could add another layer.

Thanks for your input.

>Do you have any data showing your service is better/more accurate/better false positive rate than competing offerings

I have signed up to some of the competitors and my service averaged about 20ms per request for a single IP address. From the competition it was typically around 200ms to 300ms. Regarding better false positives that would be rather hard to do.

> Are you on the up and up with all those public sources?

I gathered from sources that did not have any licensing related to non-commercial use. Would you recommend I reach out to all of the sources regardless even if they say you can use it for commercial use? Or do not say anything about commercial use at all?

> No, currently IPDetective does not support ipv6 addresses. However this feature is on the road map.

Yeah I know, just focusing on IPv4 right now. I am still collecting ipv6 addresses however I have not implemented it in the service yet.

Thanks a bunch for writing the comments above.

So I have a scraper that gathers the information from about 60 different sources using a wide array of techniques which is run everyday.

The largest thing I try to look at is to make sure my sources are not older than 1 year. Sometimes these sources break and I update them or they go offline all together. I am always looking for new hosting providers, vpn and proxies.

Also I can do further port analytics on these ips as well. A lot of the VPN services have specific ports open used by VPN services. I would say that automating every source from the start was a good way to start so I can stay up to date.

Please feel free to leave comments if you have any questions or any feedback.

This seems very familiar to a bash application I created that follows the zettelkasten note taking method. The source can be found here https://github.com/AndrewCopeland/zettelkasten

Each note is saved as a markdown file in GitHub and can be searched and linked easily from the zk cli.