How to query ASN for a known IP address with GeoIP on Django?

Question

I'm using Django 1.73 on Python 2.7.

How can I query the ASN for a known IP address using GeoIP Django?

from django.contrib.gis.geoip import GeoIP
g = GeoIP()
g.city('72.14.207.99') #returns the city
g.country('google.com') #returns the country

how can I query the asn with Django? (have installed the ASN binaries on GEO_PATH)

Edit
I've researched and found there exist a Python package PyGeoIP, In documentation there exist an ASN lookup but I don't know how to call with GeoDjango directly than using this package.

See here : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4468628/getting-a-full-copy-of-the-whois-database — , Mar 14 '15 at 12:13
Oh not whois, but ipinfo.io provides a light json api. I'm asking if this is possible with MaxMind's GeoLiteASN binaries? — Martin Joe, Mar 14 '15 at 12:17
I don't know, check their documentation, they should have some code samples. — , Mar 14 '15 at 12:18

Mehmet Öner Yalçın · Answer 1 · 2016-07-22T10:54:08.200

If you are happy to use pygeoIp it is pretty straightforward.

First download the ASN database from GeoIP then install pygeoip by

pip install pygeoip

then

>>> gi = pygeoip.GeoIP('/path/to/GeoIPASNum.dat')
>>> gi.org_by_name('cnn.com')
'AS5662 Turner Broadcasting'

or

>>> gi.org_by_addr("90.223.167.43")
u'AS5607 BSKYB-BROADBAND-AS'

If you do not want to download any database you can use pyip2asn

In [1]:import pyip2asn

In [2]:# Generate ASN Description Dictionary in order to speed up the IPv4 to ASN lookup.

In [3]: asn_dict = pyip2asn.get_asn_dictionary()
In [4]: pyip2asn.ip2asn("8.8.8.8",asn_dict)
Out[4]: (15169, u'GOOGLE - Google Inc.')

How to query ASN for a known IP address with GeoIP on Django?

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