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!

obviously hostip.info does not know what country that IP belongs to. — Antti Haapala
– Antti Haapala, Commented Jul 10, 2014 at 13:53
@AnttiHaapala, i tried with ipinfodb.com also, but for two different ip locations it is giving the same address — Mulagala
– Mulagala, Commented Jul 10, 2014 at 13:55
Before trying to regex extract relevant parts, what gives print url.read() ? — Serge Ballesta
– Serge Ballesta, Commented Jul 10, 2014 at 14:13

Shekhar Singh Choudhary · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-10 06:43:43Z

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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)

edited May 10, 2017 at 6:43

answered Feb 23, 2016 at 20:42

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Alihaydar Gubatov Over a year ago

Isn't this paid service?

John Crawford Over a year ago

As it turns out, they made their own Python library! github.com/ipinfo/python a.k.a. pip install ipinfo

papeto · Accepted Answer · 2024-08-29 21:25:39Z

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for python-3.x

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

edited Aug 29, 2024 at 21:25

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answered Mar 30, 2019 at 14:16

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24b4Jeff Over a year ago

Works like a charm Python 3.6 64bit

Bilguun · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-07 05:02:08Z

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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!

answered Jul 7, 2020 at 5:02

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Sardar · Accepted Answer · 2022-10-14 07:24:47Z

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~~Try with pygeoip~~ (It looks deprecated)

~$ 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

edited Oct 14, 2022 at 7:24

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answered Jul 10, 2014 at 13:59

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nicolimo86 Over a year ago

It looks deprecated.

imbr Over a year ago

i has been deprecated for github.com/maxmind/GeoIP2-python

Kurt Van den Branden · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-10 07:15:48Z

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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)

edited Dec 10, 2019 at 7:15

answered Apr 3, 2018 at 15:00

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smitelli Over a year ago

Doesn't look like https://geoip-db.com/json/{other IP} is supported; all queries return the IP of the machine running the script.

Kurt Van den Branden Over a year ago

Indeed correct for json. The https://geoip-db.com/jsonp/ callback however works.

Sardar Over a year ago

It works well but is very slow.

ooi18 · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-16 07:47:56Z

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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

answered Oct 16, 2018 at 7:47

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Glycerine Over a year ago

Great offline solution.

Sardar Over a year ago

Excellent method with high speed. Use as the first method and then use other solutions as the second methods.

MBizm · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-02 22:09:47Z

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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'

answered Oct 2, 2019 at 22:09

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jmunsch · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-11 16:16:55Z

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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))
'

https://github.com/maxmind/libmaxminddb

answered Oct 11, 2018 at 16:16

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mirek Over a year ago

For me 'pip install geoip2' worked. No need to add maxmin repo and apt-install libraries. (debian-testing February 2019)

Alex P. Miller · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-10 14:01:53Z

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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.

answered Jul 10, 2014 at 14:01

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heinst · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-10 14:25:39Z

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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'])

edited Jul 10, 2014 at 14:25

answered Jul 10, 2014 at 14:17

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Ganesan J Over a year ago

I try to this example .But it show error

random_hooman · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-16 09:53:55Z

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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

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answered Aug 10, 2021 at 11:29

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Rakesh Kumar · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-04 09:56:15Z

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()

Saulo Catharino · Accepted Answer · 2021-09-19 12:34:11Z

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import urllib.request
import json


ips = ['x.x.x.x', 'x.x.x.x','x.x.x.x']


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

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Yunnosch Over a year ago

Welcome to Stack Overflow! While this code may solve the question, including an explanation of how and why this solves the problem would really help to improve the quality of your post, and probably result in more up-votes. Remember that you are answering the question for readers in the future, not just the person asking now. Please edit your answer to add explanations and give an indication of what limitations and assumptions apply.

Steve Over a year ago

Welcome to Stack Overflow! On Stack Overflow, the how is important, but a great part of the quality level of the site comes from the fact that people go to great lengths to explain the why. While a code-only answer get the person who asked the question past whatever hurdle they might be facing, it doesn't do them or future visitors much good in the long run. See Is there any benefit in code-only answers?

Gino Mempin Over a year ago

Using geolocation-db.com was already mentioned in this answer. This is just a copy of that answer, with only the for-loop added.

imbr Over a year ago

Yes it's a duplicated answer

vinod · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-15 16:51:12Z

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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

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undefined Over a year ago

This is not a Python script.

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