plevin 0.1.9

Location, network and abuse information for any IP address in one offline file.
No API, no rate limit, no lookup leaving the machine.

pip install "plevin[db,full]"

import plevin

found = plevin.lookup("1.1.1.1")  # str, int, packed bytes or ipaddress object

Always a Result, never None; ValueError for anything that is not an address, and an integer reads as v6 only above 0xFFFFFFFF, so lookup(1) is 0.0.0.1.

>>> found.place.city.name, found.place.city.region.name, found.place.country.name
('Brisbane', 'Queensland', 'Australia')

>>> found.network.asn, found.network.operator.brand, found.network.cidr
(13335, 'Cloudflare', '1.1.1.0/24')

>>> exit_node = plevin.lookup("185.220.101.1")
>>> exit_node.abuse.service, exit_node.abuse.risk, exit_node.abuse.is_tor_exit_node
('tor_exit_node', 0.98, True)

The database is a separate wheel, found without being given a path. Install one, or several and the richest wins.

PLEVIN_DB=/path/to/plevin.plv or plevin.use("plevin.plv") reads a file of your own instead; plevin.Plevin(path) opens one without touching the module's.

Every field

found.place is where the address is, found.network who announces it, found.abuse what has been seen from it. Any of the three is None where the build carries none of it, and every leaf is None rather than "" or 0 where a source says nothing.

Place(
    lat=-27.4675,
    lon=153.0281,
    accuracy=200,
    confidence=36,
    granularity='city',
    city=City(
        id=2174003,
        name='Brisbane',
        ascii='Brisbane',
        country='AU',
        population=2780063,
        elevation=27,
        postal='4000',
        postal_partial=None,
        timezone='Australia/Brisbane',
        type='regional capital',
        capital='region',
        region=Region(id=2152274, code='04', iso='AU-QLD', name='Queensland',
                      type='State'),
        district=District(id=7839562, code='31000', name='Brisbane'),
        metro=None,
    ),
    country=Country(
        code='AU',
        name='Australia',
        official=None,
        common=None,
        iso3='AUS',
        numeric='036',
        flag='🇦🇺',
        european_union=False,
        driving_side='left',
    ),
    time=Time(
        timezone='Australia/Brisbane',
        abbreviation='AEST',
        local='2026-08-13T19:20:00+10:00',
        utc_offset='+10:00',
        is_dst=False,
        dst_start=None,
        dst_end=None,
    ),
)

country and time are derived, not stored: country from the two-letter code through pycountry, time from the zone name through zoneinfo, both only with the full extra. Without it the code, the flag, the EU and driving-side answers and the zone name still come through. capital says which capital the city is, region.iso is ISO 3166-2 and region.code the GeoNames admin1 number, postal_partial is the leading part of postal a source could only narrow that far.

Network(
    asn=13335,
    handle='CLOUDFLARENET',
    prefix=24,
    cidr='1.1.1.0/24',
    start='1.1.1.0',
    end='1.1.1.255',
    rir='apnic',
    rpki='valid',
    roas=1,
    operator=Operator(
        company='Cloudflare, Inc.',
        brand='Cloudflare',
        domain='cloudflare.com',
        website='https://www.cloudflare.com',
        category='content',
        tier=2,
        peering=356,
        scope='Global',
        rir='arin',
        since=2010,
        street='101 Townsend St',
        state='CA',
        postal='94107-1934',
        country='US',
        abuse_email='abuse@cloudflare.com',
        city=City(name='San Francisco', ...),  # a full City, as above
    ),
    carrier=Carrier(user_type='hosting', user_count=19, mcc=None, mnc=None,
                    is_mobile=False),
)

cidr is the announcement the address falls in, masked out of the address itself, so 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 reach one operator through two prefixes. rir is the registry that holds the address, which is the registry of the address and not of the ASN, so a block APNIC gave out can be announced by an operator ARIN registered. rpki is valid, invalid or unknown and roas how many ROAs agree.

Where nothing is announced, the registries still answer. asn, rpki and roas fall silent, cidr becomes the block a registry gave out rather than one a router carries, and handle and operator name whoever holds it.

>>> found = plevin.lookup("36.50.238.1")
>>> found.network.asn, found.network.cidr, found.network.rir
(None, '36.50.238.0/23', 'apnic')

>>> found.network.handle, found.network.operator.company
('GMTECH-BD', 'GM Tech')

RIPE, APNIC and AFRINIC publish the holder of every block they gave out; ARIN and LACNIC publish none, so an unannounced address in either region answers rir and cidr but no name. Roughly a seventh of routable IPv4 is announced by no one. brand drops the legal form and the words every network carries, so GOOGLE and Google LLC both read Google; domain is the host of website, else of abuse_email. tier is 1 transit-free, 2 has customers, 3 edge; peering the exchange count; category one of residential, business, hosting, education, government, military, cdn, content, infrastructure, cellular, search_engine_spider, traveler, transit, exchange or non-profit.

>>> plevin.lookup("185.220.101.1").abuse
Abuse(
    name='Tor',
    provider='Tor',
    service='tor_exit_node',
    evidence='measured',
    risk=0.98,
    network_risk=0.82,
    last_seen_days=1,
    is_anycast=False,
    is_satellite=False,
    is_hosting_provider=True,
    is_proxy=False,
    is_public_proxy=False,
    is_residential_proxy=False,
    is_anonymous_vpn=False,
    is_tor_exit_node=True,
    is_private_relay=False,
    is_anonymous=True,
)

risk is 0 to 1 for the address, network_risk the same for the whole ASN, None where nothing has ever been seen, so which is not a risk of zero. It is a total, not a verdict any one source hands down: what the service the address runs is worth on its own, and what every feed that named it scored it, combined so each agreeing source raises the total and none of them replaces the rest. Feeds sharing an upstream count once, and the scale stops at 0.99, since enough feeds agreeing still is not proof. A Tor exit no feed has reported still reads high on the service alone; the same exit on four blocklists reads higher. provider is who runs the service: the feed's name where one names it, else the brand of the network the address sits in, and None where the address runs no service at all. evidence is published, measured, reported or inferred, strongest first; service is tor_exit_node, private_relay, anonymous_vpn, residential_proxy or public_proxy, most specific first. A public proxy on a residential or cellular line reads as residential_proxy with evidence='inferred'. The ten booleans are read off service and the carrier's type, never stored.

What an address says on its own

Answered without the database, so they hold for every address:

>>> found = plevin.lookup("2606:4700::1111")
>>> found.number, found.compressed
(50543257672059871404715951523469725969, '2606:4700::1111')

>>> found.expanded
'2606:4700:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:1111'

>>> found.arpa
'1.1.1.1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.7.4.6.0.6.2.ip6.arpa'

is_global and is_bogon, then is_private, is_loopback, is_multicast, is_reserved, is_link_local, is_unique_local, is_documentation, is_shared (100.64/10) and is_benchmark (198.18/15), bisected out of the IANA special-purpose registries.

>>> plevin.lookup("::ffff:8.8.8.8").tunnel, plevin.lookup("::ffff:8.8.8.8").embedded_ipv4
('ipv4-mapped', '8.8.8.8')

>>> plevin.lookup("2002:808:808::1").is_6to4
True

tunnel is ipv4-mapped, 6to4, teredo, nat64 or None, with embedded_ipv4 the address it carries; is_ipv4_mapped, is_6to4 and is_teredo beside it.

>>> plevin.lookup("2001:67c:e60:c0c:192:42:116:55").decimal_ipv4
'192.42.116.55'

decimal_ipv4 is a guess and never a tunnel: the last four hextets where an operator wrote a v4 address into them as decimal. It is None wherever a real tunnel answers.

>>> found = plevin.lookup("8.8.8.8")
>>> found.as_ipv4_mapped, found.as_6to4, found.as_nat64
('::ffff:8.8.8.8', '2002:808:808::', '64:ff9b::808:808')

as_ipv4_mapped, as_6to4 and as_nat64 write a v4 address the other way about, as the v6 addresses that carry it; all three are None for a v6 address, where embedded_ipv4 already says what it carries.

What DNS says, where you ask for it

Off unless dns=True says otherwise, since it is the one part of a lookup that leaves the machine:

>>> plevin.lookup("8.8.8.8", dns=True).dns
Dns(
    asked='8.8.8.8',
    hostname='dns.google',
    hostnames=('dns.google',),
    ipv4='8.8.4.4',
    ipv6='2001:4860:4860::8888',
    ipv4_addresses=('8.8.4.4', '8.8.8.8'),
    ipv6_addresses=('2001:4860:4860::8888', '2001:4860:4860::8844'),
    alias=None,
    zone='8.8.8.in-addr.arpa',
    zone_primary='ns1.google.com',
    zone_contact='dns-admin@google.com',
    is_confirmed=True,
    is_signed=True,
)

hostname is the first PTR name and hostnames all of them, ipv4 and ipv6 that name resolved forward with ipv4_addresses and ipv6_addresses all of those, so each address names its other half; is_confirmed says the name leads back to the address, which is forward-confirmed reverse DNS; zone, zone_primary and zone_contact come from the reverse zone's SOA, naming who runs the range; is_signed is the DNSSEC verdict and alias a CNAME in the way; asked is the address actually asked about, which for a tunnel is the v4 it carries. Four questions go out in two rounds, PTR and SOA on the reverse name together and then A and AAAA of the hostname, written onto the wire and sent to every server at once, so the system's own from /etc/resolv.conf or the Windows registry and 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8 and 9.9.9.9, so first real answer winning, TCP where one comes back truncated, and kept for an hour, so a log with a thousand lines from one address asks once.

One ASN, and the networks a name belongs to

>>> found = plevin.system("AS13335")        # 'AS13335', 'as13335' or 13335
>>> found.handle, found.network.operator.brand, found.abuse.network_risk
('CLOUDFLARENET', 'Cloudflare', 0.14)

>>> [(one.asn, one.handle) for one in plevin.search("hetzner")]
[(24940, 'HETZNER-AS'), (212317, 'HETZNER-CLOUD3-AS'), (213230, 'HETZNER-CLOUD2-AS'),
 (215859, 'HETZNER-CLOUD4-AS')]

system() answers a System, so the asn, the handle, the same network with its operator and carrier, and the ASN's own abuse record, without anything only an address fixes: no prefix, no CIDR, no RPKI, no place. Falsy where the file carries no such ASN. It bisects the network table, so no spine is read and nothing about the address lookup changes.

search(text, limit=20) matches the text against every handle and every company in the file and answers the same System, widest network first: a match at the head of a word beats one inside it, and then the network that touches most of the internet wins, which is its exchanges and its users. search("13335") is the ASN itself. The index is one lowercase text built on the first search, 0.26 s, and kept from then on.

What an ASN announces

>>> routes = plevin.routes("AS13335")       # written however system() takes it
>>> len(routes.ipv4), len(routes.ipv6)
(1506, 915)

>>> routes.ipv4[0]                          # the widest first
Span(cidr='152.114.0.0/17', start='152.114.0.0', end='152.114.127.255', version=4,
     prefix=17, addresses=32768)

>>> routes.ipv4_addresses, routes.ipv6_addresses >> 64
(616704, 75037868032)

routes() answers a Routes: every prefix the ASN is announced as, split into ipv4 and ipv6 and widest first, each one a Span with its cidr, start, end, version, prefix and addresses. ipv4_addresses and ipv6_addresses count the space once where a more specific sits inside its own cover, the second one large enough that >> 64 reads it as /64 networks. Falsy where the file carries no such ASN.

It reads the spine's network column whole, a block at a time, rather than a row at a time: 83 ms for the first ASN asked about and 40 ms for every one after it, each answer kept. Nothing an address lookup reads is touched.

Good for

• Country routing, pricing and compliance without a third-party call
• Local time and flag before the user types anything
• Bulk log enrichment, at 2M lookups/s on repeats
• Abuse handling and RPKI triage in the same process, no whois or RDAP
• Air-gapped deployments, where no address leaves the process

Data

Rebuilt daily from MaxMind GeoLite2, IP2Location LITE, GeoNames, Natural Earth, a RIPE RIS RIB, RPKI ROAs, the NRO delegations, the RIPE, APNIC and AFRINIC whois dumps, CAIDA, PeeringDB, asn-abuse and the feeds in builder/data/feeds.json. Plevin(path).built dates your copy, .selection names which fields it carries and .fields lists them.

Python 3.10+. No dependencies on 3.14, where compression.zstd is in the standard library; pyzstd below it. pycountry and, on Windows, tzdata come with the full extra.

Speed

Blocks decode on reach and stay decoded, so a real log lands between the two: the boundary a lookup found, the rows it linked to and the answer itself are all kept.

Your own file

from plevin import Plevin

with_places = Plevin("dist/plevin.metro-place.plv")
with_places.lookup("1.1.1.1").place.city.name

Read-only and memory-mapped, so processes and threads share one file. For the stored rows without any of the shaping above, so dictionaries, codes already read as words, so Plevin(path).file.row(value, wide) is the reader underneath.

Builder

The Rust builder, its sources, the file format and the selection language are in builder/README.md.

cd builder && cargo build --release
./target/release/plevin-builder              # dist/plevin.plv, every field
./target/release/plevin-builder place+metro  # dist/plevin.metro-place.plv

Mini file

plevin_mini.py is the lookup with no package around it. Drop it beside a .plv and it runs.

python plevin_mini.py plevin.plv 8.8.8.8

>>> from plevin_mini import Plevin
>>> Plevin("plevin.plv").lookup("8.8.8.8")["network"]["asn"]
15169

Plain dictionaries of the stored rows, codes already read as words, and nothing derived: no models, no country, no clock, no discovery. 3,600,000 lookups a second warm. It is linted and type-checked with the package.

Development

cd python
uv run pytest          # 168 tests, 100% branch coverage
uv run mypy
uv run basedpyright
uvx ruff check . ../plevin_mini.py --config pyproject.toml
uv build --wheel

cd ../builder && cargo fmt --check && cargo clippy

License

Apache 2.0 for the readers and the builder, see LICENSE. The database carries the licenses of the sources it was built from, listed in builder/README.md.