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ip2continent_name

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✅ You can call this ip2continent_name bigfunction directly from your Google Cloud Project (no install required).

  • This ip2continent_name function is deployed in bigfunctions GCP project in 39 datasets for all of the 39 BigQuery regions. You need to use the dataset in the same region as your datasets (otherwise you may have a function not found error).
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Public BigFunctions Datasets:

Region Dataset
eu bigfunctions.eu
us bigfunctions.us
europe-west1 bigfunctions.europe_west1
asia-east1 bigfunctions.asia_east1
... ...

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ip2continent_name(ip)

Description

Get continent 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.

Examples

select bigfunctions.eu.ip2continent_name('152.216.7.110')
select bigfunctions.us.ip2continent_name('152.216.7.110')
select bigfunctions.europe_west1.ip2continent_name('152.216.7.110')
+---------------+
| continent     |
+---------------+
| North America |
+---------------+

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Use cases

You have web server logs stored in BigQuery that contain the IP addresses of visitors. You want to analyze traffic patterns by continent. You can use the ip2continent_name function to add a "continent" column to your log data:

#standardSQL
SELECT
    timestamp,
    request,
    userAgent,
    clientIp,
    bigfunctions.us.ip2continent_name(clientIp) AS continent  -- Assuming your data is in US region
  FROM
    `your_project.your_dataset.your_webserver_logs`;

This query adds a continent column derived from the clientIp column. You can then use this new column for aggregations and reporting:

#standardSQL
SELECT
    continent,
    COUNT(*) AS visit_count
  FROM (
    SELECT
        bigfunctions.us.ip2continent_name(clientIp) AS continent
      FROM
        `your_project.your_dataset.your_webserver_logs`
  )
  GROUP BY continent
  ORDER BY visit_count DESC;

This would give you a breakdown of the number of visits from each continent. Remember to replace your_project.your_dataset.your_webserver_logs with the actual path to your table and select the appropriate BigQuery region for the function call (e.g., bigfunctions.eu, bigfunctions.asia_northeast1, etc.) based on your data location.

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