Get user location by IP address

Question

I have an ASP.NET website written in C#.

On this site I need to automatically show a start page based on the user\'s location.

Can I get name of user\'s city

Answer 1

Using the Request of following web site

http://ip-api.com/

Following is C# code for returning Country and Country Code

public  string GetCountryByIP(string ipAddress)
    {
        string strReturnVal;
        string ipResponse = IPRequestHelper("http://ip-api.com/xml/" + ipAddress);

        //return ipResponse;
        XmlDocument ipInfoXML = new XmlDocument();
        ipInfoXML.LoadXml(ipResponse);
        XmlNodeList responseXML = ipInfoXML.GetElementsByTagName("query");

        NameValueCollection dataXML = new NameValueCollection();

        dataXML.Add(responseXML.Item(0).ChildNodes[2].InnerText, responseXML.Item(0).ChildNodes[2].Value);

        strReturnVal = responseXML.Item(0).ChildNodes[1].InnerText.ToString(); // Contry
        strReturnVal += "(" + 

responseXML.Item(0).ChildNodes[2].InnerText.ToString() + ")";  // Contry Code 
 return strReturnVal;
}

And following is Helper for requesting url.

public string IPRequestHelper(string url) {

      HttpWebRequest objRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
      HttpWebResponse objResponse = (HttpWebResponse)objRequest.GetResponse();

      StreamReader responseStream = new StreamReader(objResponse.GetResponseStream());
      string responseRead = responseStream.ReadToEnd();

      responseStream.Close();
      responseStream.Dispose();

  return responseRead;
}

Answer 2

Return country

static public string GetCountry()
{
    return new WebClient().DownloadString("http://api.hostip.info/country.php");
}

Usage:

Console.WriteLine(GetCountry()); // will return short code for your country

Return info

static public string GetInfo()
{
    return new WebClient().DownloadString("http://api.hostip.info/get_json.php");
}

Usage:

Console.WriteLine(GetInfo()); 
// Example:
// {
//    "country_name":"COUNTRY NAME",
//    "country_code":"COUNTRY CODE",
//    "city":"City",
//    "ip":"XX.XXX.XX.XXX"
// }