🌐 PeeringDB Scraper

🚀 Export the global Internet peering registry in seconds. Pull networks (ASNs), Internet Exchanges (IXes), and Facilities (FACs) with ASN, peering policy, traffic class, prefix counts, contact info, and geo data. No API key, no signup.

The PeeringDB Scraper queries the PeeringDB public REST API and returns clean structured records for the three core entity types in the Internet routing ecosystem: Networks (net), Internet Exchanges (ix), and Facilities (fac). Each entity carries up to 25+ fields, including the canonical ID, name and aliases, ASN (for networks), IPv4 and IPv6 prefix counts, traffic class, IPv6 support, peering policy and contracts, location (city, country, continent), media (Ethernet, ATM), site-level counts (net_count, ix_count, fac_count), and contact information (tech, sales, policy emails and phones).

PeeringDB is the open, community-maintained directory used by network engineers worldwide to coordinate peering, plan interconnects, and discover ISPs, content networks, and colocation facilities. This Actor mirrors the same API used by the official PeeringDB web UI, with server-side filtering by country and name substring, and automatic pagination across thousands of records.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Network engineers, peering coordinators, ISPs, CDN operators, hosting and cloud providers, IXPs, OSINT investigators, journalists	Peering target discovery, ASN lookups, IX participant lists, facility selection, network research, OSINT enrichment, supply-chain mapping

📋 What the PeeringDB Scraper does

Three entity modes plus filters in a single run:

• 🌐 Networks (net). Every ASN registered in PeeringDB with peering policy, traffic class, prefix counts, IRR set, and contact info.
• 🛰️ Internet Exchanges (ix). Every IX with city, country, media (Ethernet, ATM), unicast/multicast/IPv6 support, participant count, and service tier.
• 🏢 Facilities (fac). Every colocation facility with operator, address, lat/lon, CLLI, NPA-NXX, voltage services, and counts of networks, IXes, and carriers on site.
• 🌍 Country and name filters. Restrict to one ISO country code (US, DE, NL, JP) and / or a name substring.

Each record includes a deep link back to the PeeringDB profile and the underlying create/update timestamps, so you always know how fresh the upstream entry is.

💡 Why it matters: PeeringDB is the source of truth for inter-network routing relationships. Network engineers use it to find peering partners, ops teams use it to map upstream and downstream dependencies, and OSINT analysts use it to trace ASN ownership and infrastructure footprints. This Actor turns the live registry into a queryable, exportable dataset.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: aka, asn, created, entity, id, info_ipv6, info_multicast, info_prefixes4, info_prefixes6, info_ratio, info_scope, info_type, info_types, info_unicast, irr_as_set, name, name_long, policy_contracts, policy_general, policy_locations, policy_ratio, policy_url, scrapedAt, status, updated, url, website. All 27 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the PeeringDB Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick an entity (net, ix, or fac), an optional country, a name substring, and maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor pull live records from PeeringDB.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results from the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to a downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by PeeringDB or its operators. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available registry data is collected.

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