ip2proxy/mysql repository overview

⁠docker-ip2proxy-mysql

A ready-to-run MySQL server preloaded with an IP2Proxy⁠ proxy IP database. Supports the commercial packages and the free LITE⁠ package. Register for an account first as download token is required.

⁠Usage

docker network create ip2proxy-network

docker run --name ip2proxy \
  --network ip2proxy-network \
  -d \
  -e TOKEN={DOWNLOAD_TOKEN} \
  -e CODE={DOWNLOAD_CODE} \
  -e IP_TYPE=IPV4 \
  -e MYSQL_PASSWORD={MYSQL_PASSWORD} \
  ip2proxy/mysql

docker logs -f ip2proxy      # Wait for "✓ Setup completed"

ENV Variables

CODE — Free Database: PX1-LITE, PX2-LITE, PX3-LITE, PX4-LITE, PX5-LITE, PX6-LITE, PX7-LITE, PX8-LITE, PX9-LITE, PX10-LITE, PX11-LITE, PX12-LITE. Commercial Database: PX1, PX2, PX3, PX4, PX5, PX6, PX7, PX8, PX9, PX10, PX11, PX12.

Only one address family is installed per container. To switch, start a fresh container with an empty /var/lib/mysql — an existing install is not converted in place, and re-running with different settings prints a note explaining that.

The admin password is written to /ip2proxy.conf inside the container, so docker logs and docker exec access are equivalent to knowing it.

To start over:

docker rm -f ip2proxy
docker volume rm ip2proxy-data        # if you used -v ip2proxy-data:/var/lib/mysql

⁠Query for IP Information

The table stores each entry as an ip_from/ip_to number range. A built-in IP_ATON() converts an address to that number, so you can query with the address directly:

SELECT * FROM `ip2proxy_database` WHERE IP_ATON('8.8.8.8') BETWEEN ip_from AND ip_to LIMIT 1;

Both bounds are required. The database lists only addresses that have proxy data, so the ranges are sparse: they do not cover the address space and most addresses sit in a gap between two ranges. Matching on ip_to alone (IP_ATON('8.8.8.8') <= ip_to LIMIT 1) matches millions of rows, and with no ORDER BY the row you get back is an arbitrary one of those — so it reports a proxy record for an address that is not a proxy. BETWEEN ip_from AND ip_to matches the single range that actually contains the address, or nothing.

IP_ATON() handles both IPv4 and IPv6, so the same query works whichever IP_TYPE you installed. It is created during setup.

No row returned means the address is not in the database. For IP2Proxy that is the ordinary result for most addresses, since only a small share of the address space carries proxy data.

⁠Connect from an Application

Put your application on the same network and reach the container by name (ip2proxy):

docker run --network ip2proxy-network -t -i {YOUR_APPLICATION}

The client binary is mariadb, not mysql.

⁠Update IP2Proxy Database

docker exec -it ip2proxy /update.sh

Downloads a fresh copy and swaps it in, so queries keep working against the old data until the swap. The daily download quota is limited. If you get [QUOTA EXCEEDED] error, please try again after 24 hours.

⁠Articles and Tutorials

IP2Proxy Articles and Tutorials⁠