The Scenario
You are the data privacy officer at a German SaaS company. Your legal team just reminded you — for the third time this quarter — that all IP-based geolocation lookups for EU user data must be processed within European infrastructure under GDPR. You have 3,000 EU session IPs in Google Sheets. You need them enriched with country, city, and threat status. And the enrichment cannot route through US-based endpoints.
This would be simple if the standard ipdata.co endpoint were fine. It is not.
The bad version:
- Look up ipdata.co's documentation to find the EU endpoint URL.
- Try to write an Apps Script that calls the EU endpoint, handles 100-IP batches, and writes results back to the sheet.
- Discover that Apps Script's UrlFetchApp has rate limits and the script crashes at row 340.
- Restart from row 340, realize you do not know which rows were already written, and start over from row 1 to be safe.
Your DPA audit is next month. Arriving with a partially enriched sheet and a broken script is not the evidence trail you want to present.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads the IP column, calls ipdata.co's EU-residency endpoint for each IP, and writes the enrichment results into the columns you specify — all through EU infrastructure.
For each IP address in column A, use ipdata.co's EU endpoint to fetch country, city, and threat status and write them to columns B, C, and D — all lookups must use the EU data residency endpoint.
What You Get
- Column B: country name resolved via the ipdata.co EU endpoint
- Column C: city string where available
- Column D: threat boolean from the EU endpoint response
- Processing stays within European data centers throughout — no US routing
- IPs with no response noted inline so the audit trail shows every row was attempted
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
The session log includes IPs from outside the EU that should not go through the EU endpoint
For each IP in column A, check whether it resolves to an EU country using ipdata.co's EU endpoint. If EU, write country, city, and threat status to columns B, C, and D. If non-EU, write the country to column B and leave C and D blank. Use the EU endpoint for all lookups.
You need time zone alongside geolocation for scheduling downstream processes
Enrich all IPs in column A using the ipdata.co EU endpoint and write country code to column B, region to column C, time zone to column D, and is_threat flag to column E.
Session IPs span two tabs and need to be processed together
Combine IP addresses from the Sessions-Q1 tab column A and Sessions-Q2 tab column A into a deduplicated list. Enrich each using the ipdata.co EU endpoint for country, city, and threat status. Write results to a new tab called GDPR-Enriched with columns: IP, Country, City, Threat.
Kill-chain: deduplicate IPs, EU-endpoint enrich, flag threats, and produce an audit summary
Deduplicate the IPs in column A. For each unique IP, call the ipdata.co EU endpoint for country, city, and threat status — writing to columns B, C, and D. Flag HIGH RISK in column E where threat is true. Add an audit summary below the data: total IPs processed, count of EU-resident IPs, count of HIGH RISK flags, and timestamp of enrichment run.
One prompt produces an audit-ready enrichment with summary statistics.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open your EU session IP sheet, then ask SheetXAI to run a GDPR-compliant enrichment using ipdata.co's EU endpoint. See also classifying IPs by continent and EU flag or the ipdata.co hub overview.