Introduction🔗
The Getting Started Console examples show how to call 51Degrees IP Intelligence from a standalone command-line program. They are the shortest end-to-end walkthrough for the engine: build a pipeline, hand it an IP address, and print the resulting properties such as country, region, city, ASN, registered name, estimated bandwidth and connection type. Use them as the starting point for batch enrichment, ad-hoc lookups, automation scripts, or as a sanity check before wiring the pipeline into a larger application.
Two deployment models are covered:
- Cloud — calls 51Degrees' hosted Cloud service over HTTPS. A Resource Key configures the pipeline; no data file is needed locally. Best for the fastest path to a working integration. See IP Intelligence Getting Started Console Cloud.
- On-premise — runs the IP Intelligence engine inside your own process against a locally distributed data file. Best when network access is restricted or when you need the lowest per-call latency. See IP Intelligence Getting Started Console On-premise.
Both examples are available across every supported language with a matching pattern, so the same logic can be compared side by side. If you intend to deploy inside a web framework rather than a console, see IP Intelligence Getting Started Web instead.