Get-CountryForIPAddress.ps1

1. <# 
2. .SYNOPSIS 
3.     Gets country for a Geo-IP address 
4. .DESCRIPTION 
5.     This function uses the New-WebServiceProxy cmdlet to 
6.     create a web service proxy. Then it calls that proxy 
7.     to get the country for a given IP address. After the 
8.     function definition are two examples! 
9. .NOTES 
10.     File Name  : Get-CountryForIPAddress.ps1 
11.     Author     : Thomas Lee - tfl@psp.co.uk 
12.     Requires   : PowerShell V2 CTP3 
13. .LINK 
14.    Script posted: 
15.    http://www.pshscripts.blogspot.com 
16. .INPUTTYPE 
17.    String representing IP Adress 
18. .RETURNVALUE 
19.    XML Element, holding details of the country 
20. .EXAMPLE 
21.     Run from PowerShell Prompt: 
22.     Looking up: 131.107.2.200 
23.     Country: UNITED STATES (US) 
24. .EXAMPLE 
25.     Run from PipelineL 
26.     "16.0.0.1","200.200.200.1" | Get-CountryForIPAddress 
27.     Looking up: 16.0.0.1 
28.     Country: UNITED STATES (US) 
29.     Looking up: 200.200.200.1 
30.     Country: BRAZIL (BR) 
31. .PARAMETER IPAddress 
32.     A string, or array of strings representing IP Addresses 
33.     The function gets country details for each IPAddress provided 
34. #> 
35.  
36. function Get-CountryForIPAddress { 
37. param( 
38. [Parameter(Position=0, Mandatory=$FALSE, ValueFromPipeline=$TRUE)]  
39. [String] $IPAddress="131.107.2.200" ) 
40. process { 
41.    "Looking up: {0}" -f $IPAddress 
42.    $s = new-webserviceproxy -uri http://www.webservicex.net/geoipservice.asmx 
43.    foreach ($addr in $IPAddress) { 
44.       $result = $s.GetGeoIP($addr) 
45.       "Country: {0} ({1})" -f $result.countryname, $result.countrycode 
46.     } # end foreach 
47. } #end process block 
48. } # end function 
49.  
50.  
51. "Example 1:" 
52. "==========" 
53. Get-CountryForIPAddress "131.107.2.200" 
54.  
55. "Example 2:" 
56. "==========" 
57. "16.0.0.1","200.200.200.1" | Get-CountryForIPAddress 
58. # End of Script