Get physical position of device with Python?

Question

Is there a way to get the computer\'s physical position using Python, preferably without an API, or with a free API? I\'ve searched around a bit, and the only free API I\'ve

Answer 1

If you know the public IP of the device then you can do so by using freegeip. Below is the Python 3.4.2 code for getting location and time zone.

>>> import requests
>>> ip = '141.70.111.66'
>>> url = 'http://freegeoip.net/json/'+ip
>>> r = requests.get(url)
>>> js = r.json()
>>> js['country_code']
'DE'
>>> js['country_name']
'Germany'
>>> js['time_zone']
'Europe/Berlin'
>>> js['city']
'Stuttgart'
>>> js.items()
dict_items([('latitude', 48.7667), ('ip', '141.70.111.66'), ('region_code', 'BW'), ('country_code', 'DE'), ('city', 'Stuttgart'), ('zip_code', '70173'), ('country_name', 'Germany'), ('longitude', 9.1833), ('region_name', 'Baden-Württemberg Region'), ('time_zone', 'Europe/Berlin'), ('metro_code', 0)])