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External APIs

These are the third-party services Krawl calls out to. For Krawl's own endpoints (IP stats, banlist export, attachments, webhooks), see the Dashboard API.

Krawl calls a set of external APIs to enrich IP data, resolve geolocation, and check reputation. All external calls happen in background tasks — they never block incoming requests.

IP Geolocation

Service URL Used for
ip-api.com http://ip-api.com/json/{ip} Country, city, ISP, ASN, proxy/hosting flags
  • Called by: fetch_ip_rep background task (runs every 5 minutes)
  • Timeout: 5 seconds
  • Rate limits: ip-api.com allows 45 requests/minute on the free tier. Krawl processes up to 50 unenriched IPs per task run.
  • Caching: Results are persisted to the database after enrichment — the API is only called once per IP.
  • Fallback: If the API is unreachable, the IP remains unenriched and is retried on the next task run.
  • Note: Private/internal IPs are skipped automatically.

IP Reputation

Service URL Used for
iprep.lcrawl.com https://iprep.lcrawl.com/api/iprep/?cidr={ip} Blocklist status and reputation data
  • Called by: fetch_ip_rep background task (same task as geolocation, every 5 minutes)
  • Timeout: 10 seconds
  • Caching: Results are persisted to the database alongside geolocation data.
  • Fallback: If the API fails, geolocation enrichment still proceeds — the blocklist data is simply empty for that IP.

Server IP Discovery

These services are used once at startup to determine the server's own public IP address. This IP is then excluded from traffic statistics.

Service URL
api.ipify.org https://api.ipify.org
ident.me http://ident.me
ifconfig.me https://ifconfig.me
  • Timeout: 5 seconds per service
  • Fallback: Services are tried in sequence — if one fails, the next is attempted. If all fail, a warning is logged and Krawl continues without filtering its own IP.

Reverse Geocoding

Service URL Used for
nominatim.openstreetmap.org https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/reverse Reverse geocoding (latitude/longitude to address)
  • Listed for reference; usage depends on dashboard features.