[Privacy Detection] Get privacy, proxy and VPN detection information from an IP address using the C# language.

If you are using the C# programming language and want to look up if an IP address is associated with a privacy service such as VPN, proxy or hosting service, you can use our Privacy Detection API service. To get started:

Step 1: Get your access token.

Sign up for the appropriate tier and copy your IPinfo access token from your dashboard.

Step 2: Install the IPinfo C# library

Visit our official open-source IPinfo C# library GitHub repo and follow the instructions to install the library.

Step 3: IPinfo C# library ⇒ IP to Privacy

After importing and initializing the IPinfo package, you will need to call the following methods on the IPResponse class variable:

Starter code template

//namespace
using IPinfo;
using IPinfo.Models;


namespace IPinfoApp {      
    // Class declaration
    class IPlookup {
          
        // Main Method
        static async Task Main(string[] args) {
            
            ////////////////////////////////
            // initializing IPinfo client // 
            ////////////////////////////////
            // Get your IPinfo access token from: ipinfo.io/account/token
            string token = "YOUR_TOKEN";
            IPinfoClient client = new IPinfoClient.Builder()
                .AccessToken(token)
                .Build();


            // making the API call
            string ip = "173.45.30.55";
            IPResponse ipResponse= await client.IPApi.GetDetailsAsync(ip);

            ////////////////////////////////
            // Privacy Detection Insights //
            ////////////////////////////////
            Console.WriteLine($"Hosting/Data center IP?: {ipResponse.Privacy.Hosting}");
            Console.WriteLine($"Proxy IP?: {ipResponse.Privacy.Proxy}");
            Console.WriteLine($"Relay IP?: {ipResponse.Privacy.Relay}");
            Console.WriteLine($"Tor endpoint IP?: {ipResponse.Privacy.Tor}");
            Console.WriteLine($"VPN IP?: {ipResponse.Privacy.Vpn}");
            Console.WriteLine($"Service provider: {ipResponse.Privacy.Service}");
        }
    }
}
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Result

Hosting/Data center IP: False
Proxy IP?: False
Relay IP?: False
Tor endpoint IP?: False
VPN IP?: True
Service provider:<br>

As you can see, the IP address is flagged as a VPN IP address.

Besides the API service, IPinfo IP to Privacy detection data is also available as a database download.

To learn more about using the C# language and .NET framework with IPinfo, please check out our article: First steps with C#/.NET & IPinfo’s API and Database

If you have any questions, please reach out to us.