Over the past couple months we've been working hard on a new version of our Proxy Checking API. And today we're proud to launch it officially and welcome you to try it out.

You may remember last month we shared with you a new API endpoint called v1b and at that time we weren't quite sure if we should launch the new API under the /v1/ endpoint because it created a lot of code bloat to make the new API compatible with our old result format whilst still being able to support the new features we've included.

New features such as:

• Proper formatted URL strings so you can supply [ipaddress]?key= instead of [ipaddress]&key=.
• The ability to send your IP Address to be checked using the POST method instead of just GET.
• The ability to check up-to 100 IP Addresses in a single query using GET or POST methods.
• The ability to disable real-time inference checking with a new inf flag.

v2 has all of these and to support the multi-checking feature we've had to alter our result format so that the proxy declarations are nested under the IP Addresses. We did (with v1b) create a compatibility layer so that if you were checking a single IP Address it presented the old format. But this created code bloat and frankly we didn't feel it was a good trade off.

So instead we're going to maintain our /v1/ endpoint for a long while (probably until 2020-2022 depending on usage). And in its place we will be presenting /v2/ as our main API endpoint from now on.

If you're worried about how this change will affect your code, don't be. The API is still very easy to query and in-fact in our own PHP Function (available on GitHub) we were able to upgrade with just two changes, the URL we were querying and the JSON conditional statement.

Essentially this: if ( $Decoded_JSON->proxy == "yes" && $Decoded_JSON->ip == $Visitor_IP ) {

Became this: if ( $Decoded_JSON->$Visitor_IP->proxy == "yes" ) {

It's just that simple. Now again you do not need to rush around and change your API over to v2, we will be supporting the v1 endpoint for many years yet. But if you want to get on the latest and greatest you're more than welcome to do so.

You'll find that we've updated our API Documentation page to include the new /v2/ endpoint and we've also spruced up the pages appearance. We hope you enjoy the new look.

We've got a lot of things coming in 2018 and this is the foundation on which we'll be building them. Thank you everyone for reading and we wish you a Happy New Year!