Getting the location from an IP address [duplicate]

Answer 1

Using Google APIS:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script>
contry_code = google.loader.ClientLocation.address.country_code
city = google.loader.ClientLocation.address.city
region = google.loader.ClientLocation.address.region
</script>

Answer 2

The service in Ben Dowling's response has changed, so it's now simpler. To find the location, simply do:

// no need to pass ip any longer; ipinfo grabs the ip of the person requesting
$details = json_decode(file_get_contents("http://ipinfo.io/"));
echo $details->city; // city

The coordinates return in a single string like '31,-80', so from there you just:

$coordinates = explode(",", $details->loc); // -> '31,-89' becomes'31','-80'
echo $coordinates[0]; // latitude
echo $coordinates[1]; // longitude

Answer 3

Thought I'd post as nobody seems to have given info on this particular API, but its returning exactly what I'm after and you can get it to return in multiple formats, json, xml and csv.

 $location = file_get_contents('http://freegeoip.net/json/'.$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
 print_r($location);

This will give you all of the things you could possibly want:

{
      "ip": "77.99.179.98",
      "country_code": "GB",
      "country_name": "United Kingdom",
      "region_code": "H9",
      "region_name": "London, City of",
      "city": "London",
      "zipcode": "",
      "latitude": 51.5142,
      "longitude": -0.0931,
      "metro_code": "",
      "areacode": ""

}

Answer 4

Look at the API from hostip.info - it provides lots of information.
Example in PHP:

$data = file_get_contents("http://api.hostip.info/country.php?ip=12.215.42.19");
//$data contains: "US"

$data = file_get_contents("http://api.hostip.info/?ip=12.215.42.19");
//$data contains: XML with country, lat, long, city, etc...

If you trust hostip.info, it seems to be a very useful API.

Answer 5

You can also use "smart-ip" service:

$.getJSON("http://smart-ip.net/geoip-json?callback=?",
    function (data) {
        alert(data.countryName);
        alert(data.city);
    }
);