google-bigquerytimezonegeoipip-geolocation

How to transform IP addresses into geolocation in BigQuery standard SQL?


So I have read https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2014/03/geoip-geolocation-with-google-bigquery.html

But I was wondering if there was a #standardSQL way of doing it. So far, I have a lot of challenge converting PARSE_IP and NTH() since the suggested changes in the migration docs have limitations.

Going from PARSE_IP(contributor_ip) to NET.IPV4_TO_INT64(NET.SAFE_IP_FROM_STRING(contributor_ip)) does not work for IPv6 IP addresses.

Going from NTH(1, latitude) lat to latitude[SAFE_ORDINAL(1)] does not work since latitude is considered a string.

And there might be more migration problems that I have yet to encounter. Does anyone know how to transform IP addresses into geolocation in BigQuery standard SQL?

P.S. How would I go from geolocation to determining timezone?

edit: So what is the difference between this

#legacySQL
SELECT
  COUNT(*) c,
  city,
  countryLabel,
  NTH(1, latitude) lat,
  NTH(1, longitude) lng
FROM (
  SELECT
    INTEGER(PARSE_IP(contributor_ip)) AS clientIpNum,
    INTEGER(PARSE_IP(contributor_ip)/(256*256)) AS classB
  FROM
    [publicdata:samples.wikipedia]
  WHERE
    contributor_ip IS NOT NULL ) AS a
JOIN EACH
  [fh-bigquery:geocode.geolite_city_bq_b2b] AS b
ON
  a.classB = b.classB
WHERE
  a.clientIpNum BETWEEN b.startIpNum
  AND b.endIpNum
  AND city != ''
GROUP BY
  city,
  countryLabel
ORDER BY
  1 DESC

and

SELECT
  COUNT(*) c,
  city,
  countryLabel,
  ANY_VALUE(latitude) lat,
  ANY_VALUE(longitude) lng
FROM (
  SELECT
    CASE
      WHEN BYTE_LENGTH(contributor_ip) < 16 THEN SAFE_CAST(NET.IPV4_TO_INT64(NET.SAFE_IP_FROM_STRING(contributor_ip)) AS INT64)
      ELSE NULL
    END AS clientIpNum,
    CASE
      WHEN BYTE_LENGTH(contributor_ip) < 16 THEN SAFE_CAST(NET.IPV4_TO_INT64(NET.SAFE_IP_FROM_STRING(contributor_ip)) / (256*256) AS INT64) 
      ELSE NULL
    END AS classB
  FROM
    `publicdata.samples.wikipedia`
  WHERE
    contributor_ip IS NOT NULL ) AS a
JOIN
  `fh-bigquery.geocode.geolite_city_bq_b2b` AS b
ON
  a.classB = b.classB
WHERE
  a.clientIpNum BETWEEN b.startIpNum
  AND b.endIpNum
  AND city != ''
GROUP BY
  city,
  countryLabel
ORDER BY
  1 DESC

edit2: Seems like I manage to figure out the problem via not casting a float correctly. Right now, the standard SQL returns 41815 rows instead the 56347 rows from the legacy SQL which may be due to the lack of conversion from IPv6 to int for standard SQL, but it might be due to something else. Also the legacy SQL query performs much better, running at about 10 seconds instead of the full minute from the standard SQL.


Solution

  • According to https://gist.github.com/matsukaz/a145c2553a0faa59e32ad7c25e6a92f7

    #standardSQL
    SELECT
      id,
      IFNULL(city, 'Other') AS city,
      IFNULL(countryLabel, 'Other') AS countryLabel,
      latitude,
      longitude
    FROM (
      SELECT
        id,
        NET.IPV4_TO_INT64(NET.IP_FROM_STRING(ip)) AS clientIpNum,
        TRUNC(NET.IPV4_TO_INT64(NET.IP_FROM_STRING(ip))/(256*256)) AS classB
      FROM
        `<project>.<dataset>.log` ) AS a
    LEFT OUTER JOIN
      `fh-bigquery.geocode.geolite_city_bq_b2b` AS b
    ON
      a.classB = b.classB
      AND a.clientIpNum BETWEEN b.startIpNum AND b.endIpNum
    ORDER BY
      id ASC