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ip2continent

ip2continent(ip)

Description

Get continent_code of ip

This functions uses IP address data powered by IPinfo and released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. You are required to attribute IPinfo to use their free datasets. The attribution requirements can be met by giving their service credit as your data source. Simply place a link to IPinfo on the website, application, or social media account that uses their data.

Usage

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The easiest way to use bigfunctions

  • ip2continent function is deployed in 39 public datasets for all of the 39 BigQuery regions.
  • It can be called by anyone. Just copy / paste examples below in your BigQuery console. It just works!
  • (You need to use the dataset in the same region as your datasets otherwise you may have a function not found error)

Public BigFunctions Datasets

Region Dataset
eu bigfunctions.eu
us bigfunctions.us
europe-west1 bigfunctions.europe_west1
asia-east1 bigfunctions.asia_east1
... ...
Deploy ip2continent in your project

Why deploy?

  • You may prefer to deploy ip2continent in your own project to build and manage your own catalog of functions.
  • This is particularly useful if you want to create private functions (for example calling your internal APIs).
  • Get started by reading the framework page

Deployment

ip2continent function can be deployed with:

pip install bigfunctions
bigfun get ip2continent
bigfun deploy ip2continent

Requirements

ip2continent uses the following secrets. Get them by reading the documentation link and store them in Google Secret Manager in the project where you deploy the function (and give Accessor role to the service account of the function):

name description documentation to get the secret
ipinfo_token IP Info Token doc

Examples

select bigfunctions.eu.ip2continent("152.216.7.110")

select bigfunctions.us.ip2continent("152.216.7.110")

select bigfunctions.europe_west1.ip2continent("152.216.7.110")

+----------------+
| continent_code |
+----------------+
| NA             |
+----------------+

Use cases

You have a table of website access logs, including the IP address of each visitor. You want to analyze traffic patterns by continent. You can use the ip2continent function to add a continent code to each log entry:

#standardSQL
SELECT
    timestamp,
    request_path,
    user_agent,
    ip_address,
    bigfunctions.YOUR_REGION.ip2continent(ip_address) AS continent_code
FROM
    `your_project.your_dataset.your_access_logs_table`;

Replace YOUR_REGION with the BigQuery region where your your_access_logs_table resides (e.g., us, eu, us-central1). This query will add a continent_code column to your results, allowing you to then group and aggregate your data by continent:

#standardSQL
SELECT
    bigfunctions.YOUR_REGION.ip2continent(ip_address) AS continent_code,
    COUNT(*) AS access_count
FROM
    `your_project.your_dataset.your_access_logs_table`
GROUP BY
    continent_code
ORDER BY
    access_count DESC;

This will give you a count of accesses from each continent. This is useful for understanding your user base geographically, targeting marketing campaigns, or optimizing content delivery.

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