How to find location with IP address in Python?

Question

I am developing a project, that needs to store user location in my data base. I got the public IP address of that user. But I am unable to get the user location. I have tried several ways (from StackOverflow ) but I didn't find any hint. Like the below

url = urllib.urlopen("http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=%s&position=true" % ip)
data = re.compile('^[^\(]+\(|\)$').sub('', url.read())
print data

but I am getting the result as

Unknown Country?) (XX)
City: (Unknown City?)

another way:

import urllib

response = urllib.urlopen("http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip={}&position=true".format(ip)).read()

print(response)

but the result is

Country: (Unknown Country?) (XX)
City: (Unknown City?)

Latitude: 
Longitude: 
IP: 115.xxx.xxx.xx

Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

One of the simplest methods for getting the IP address as well as the location in detail is to use http://ipinfo.io

import re
import json
from urllib2 import urlopen

url = 'http://ipinfo.io/json'
response = urlopen(url)
data = json.load(response)

IP=data['ip']
org=data['org']
city = data['city']
country=data['country']
region=data['region']

print 'Your IP detail\n '
print 'IP : {4} \nRegion : {1} \nCountry : {2} \nCity : {3} \nOrg : {0}'.format(org,region,country,city,IP)

Answer 2

Try with pygeoip

~$ ping stackoverflow.com
PING stackoverflow.com (198.252.206.16) 56(84) bytes of data.

>>> import pygeoip
>>> GEOIP = pygeoip.GeoIP("/absolute_path/GeoIP.dat", pygeoip.MEMORY_CACHE)
>>> GEOIP.country_name_by_addr(ip)
'United States'

GeoIP.data is available here

Answer 3

for python-3.x

def ipInfo(addr=''):
    from urllib.request import urlopen
    from json import load
    if addr == '':
        url = 'https://ipinfo.io/json'
    else:
        url = 'https://ipinfo.io/' + addr + '/json'
    res = urlopen(url)
    #response from url(if res==None then check connection)
    data = load(res)
    #will load the json response into data
    for attr in data.keys():
        #will print the data line by line
        print(attr,' '*13+'\t->\t',data[attr])

Answer 4

Thanks for all the solutions and workarounds! However, I was not able to use all of the above methods.

Here is what worked for me:

import requests

response = requests.get("https://geolocation-db.com/json/39.110.142.79&position=true").json()

This method seemed simple and easy to use. (I needed to work with a dictionary response...)

In the future, the "geolocation-db.com" might become unavailable, so alternative sources might be required!

Answer 5

Assuming that you got the ip address already, you can try to use the IP2Location Python Library to get the user location. A sample code is like this:

import os
import IP2Location

database = IP2Location.IP2Location(os.path.join("data", "IPV4-COUNTRY.BIN"))

rec = database.get_all(ip)

print(rec.country_short)
print(rec.country_long)
print(rec.region)
print(rec.city)
print(rec.isp)  
print(rec.latitude)
print(rec.longitude)            
print(rec.domain)
print(rec.zipcode)
print(rec.timezone)
print(rec.netspeed)
print(rec.idd_code)
print(rec.area_code)
print(rec.weather_code)
print(rec.weather_name)
print(rec.mcc)
print(rec.mnc)
print(rec.mobile_brand)
print(rec.elevation)
print(rec.usage_type)

Depends on your requirement, for example if you want to get the user's country name and region name, you can do this:

import os
import IP2Location

database = IP2Location.IP2Location(os.path.join("data", "IPV4-COUNTRY.BIN"))

rec = database.get_all(ip)

user_country = rec.country_long
user_region = rec.region

For more details, you can visit here: IP2Location Python library

Github link: IP2Location Python library Github

Answer 6

You can use the services of https://geolocation-db.com IPv4 and IPv6 are supported. Either a JSON-object or JSONP callback function is returned.

Python 2:

import urllib
import json

url = "https://geolocation-db.com/json"
response = urllib.urlopen(url)
data = json.loads(response.read())
print data

Python 3:

import urllib.request
import json

with urllib.request.urlopen("https://geolocation-db.com/json") as url:
    data = json.loads(url.read().decode())
    print(data)

A python 3 jsonp example:

import urllib.request
import json

with urllib.request.urlopen("https://geolocation-db.com/jsonp/8.8.8.8") as url:
    data = url.read().decode()
    data = data.split("(")[1].strip(")")
    print(data)

Answer 7

I'm doing this same thing on own server. Get an API key from http://ipinfodb.com/register.php and try:

import requests

ipdb = "http://api.ipinfodb.com/v3/ip-city/?key=<your api key>&ip="
ip_address = function_to_get_ip_address()
location = " ".join(str(requests.get(ipdb+ip_address).text).split(";")[4:7])

The value of location will be COUNTRY REGION CITY .

Keep in mind that IP addresses are not precise geo-locators. Especially when accessing your website from a mobile device, you'll see that the location of the IP address to be maybe 100 miles away from the physical location of the user.

Answer 8

It ultimately depends on how you get your computers IP address. If you are on a VPN or another private network, just getting the local IP address will return nothing, like you are seeing now. In this case you have to get the public IP address like so:

url = 'http://api.hostip.info/get_json.php'
info = json.loads(urllib.urlopen(url).read())
ip = info['ip']

Here is my full code for getting all the information that you are seeking (I used freegeoip.net):

import urllib
import json

url = 'http://api.hostip.info/get_json.php'
info = json.loads(urllib.urlopen(url).read())
ip = info['ip']

urlFoLaction = "http://www.freegeoip.net/json/{0}".format(ip)
locationInfo = json.loads(urllib.urlopen(urlFoLaction).read())
print 'Country: ' + locationInfo['country_name']
print 'City: ' + locationInfo['city']
print ''
print 'Latitude: ' + str(locationInfo['latitude'])
print 'Longitude: ' + str(locationInfo['longitude'])
print 'IP: ' + str(locationInfo['ip'])

Answer 9

requirements:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maxmind/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libmaxminddb0 libmaxminddb-dev mmdb-bin
sudo pip install geoip2

geoip database:

wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLite2-City.tar.gz
tar xvfz GeoLite2-City.tar.gz

example for nginx access logs:

python -c 'import geoip2.database
reader = geoip2.database.Reader("./GeoLite2-City/GeoLite2-City.mmdb")
for line in open("/var/log/nginx/access.log').readlines():
    response = reader.city(line.split(" ")[0])
    print(dir(response))
'

related:

• https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb

Answer 10

I found ipinfo offering the best service and providing free API usage for up to 50k calls per month - see 'Rate Limits' here :

import ipinfo

access_token = '123456789abc'
handler = ipinfo.getHandler(access_token)
ip_address = '216.239.36.21'
details = handler.getDetails(ip_address)
details.city
'Mountain View'
details.country
'US'
details.loc
'37.3861,-122.0840'

Answer 11

https://github.com/airakesh/BeautifulSoupRecipes/blob/master/geoip.py

# Get Geolocation(Country) and hostname by passing a file having a bunch of IP addresses as the argument from the command line. Example- python GeoIP.py path-to-file-containing-IP addresses:
https://github.com/airakesh/BeautifulSoupRecipes/blob/master/sample_ips.txt

import re
import os
import sys
import subprocess
import socket

# Input file argument
ips_file = sys.argv[1]

# The regular expression for validating an IP-address                                                                                                                                                            
pattern = '''^(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[0-1]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[0-1]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[0-1]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[0-1]?[0-9][0-9]?)'''

def getGeoHost():
    fp = open(ips_file, 'rb')
    for line in fp:
        line = line.strip()
        addr = line.decode('utf-8')
        regex = re.compile(pattern)
        match = regex.match(addr)
        # Get hostname by IP address                                                                                                                                                                          
        try:
            host = socket.gethostbyaddr(addr)
            hostname = host[0]
        # Print Unknown no hostname is available                                                                                                                                                                  
        except:
            hostname = 'Unknown'

        # Get geolocation by IP address                                                                                                                                                                            
        get_geo_cmd = 'geoiplookup ' + addr
        geo_str = subprocess.check_output(get_geo_cmd, shell=True)
        geo = geo_str.decode('utf-8')

        # Match country name pattern                                                                                                                                                                              
        geo_pattern = '''^(GeoIP Country Edition: ([A-Z]{2})\, (.*))'''
        geo_regex = re.compile(geo_pattern)
        country_match = re.match(geo_pattern, geo)
        # Check country name is available and if not, print 'Unknown'                                                                                                                                               
        if country_match != '' and geo_pattern:
            try:
                country = country_match.group(3)
            except:
                country = 'Unknown'
        # Clubbing together in format 'IP|Country|Hostname' data                                                                                                                                                    
        geo_hostname = addr + ' | ' + country + ' | ' + hostname
        print geo_hostname


if __name__ == "__main__":

    ips_detail_list = getGeoHost()

Answer 12

You can do that using ipinfo's api first go to ipinfo.io and sign up. You'll get a access token, copy it, now do pip install ipinfo now you can type this sample code:

>>> import ipinfo
>>> handler = ipinfo.getHandler(access_token)
>>> d = handler.getDetails(ip_address)
>>> d.city

or if you'll directly do d.details it will return a dictionary and you could use it as a dictionary too, it would have all things like ip address, city, country, state etc. you can also get them using like this d.country or for location d.loc , for city, as i wrote, d.city

Answer 13

nmap --script ip-geolocation-geoplugin <target>

Script Output
| ip-geolocation-geoplugin:
| coordinates: 39.4208984375, -74.497703552246
|_location: New Jersey, United States

https://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/ip-geolocation-geoplugin.html