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

import urllib2
import json

# Automatically geolocate the connecting IP
f = urllib2.urlopen('http://freegeoip.net/json/')
json_string = f.read()
f.close()
location = json.loads(json_string)
print(location)
location_city = location['city']
location_state = location['region_name']
location_country = location['country_name']
location_zip = location['zipcode']

Send HTTP GET requests to: freegeoip.net/{format}/{ip_or_hostname} to receive a JSON output that Python can parse.

I get the following JSON keys, which should be sufficient for what you are needing:

• ip
• country_code
• country_name
• region_code
• region_name
• city
• zipcode
• latitude
• longitude
• metro_code
• area_code

Answer 2

I rediscovered another weather API which I don't like quite as much (Weather Underground), but can optionally determine the location. Might use this if I can't something like a geoiptool scraper to work.

Answer 3

You can try using MaxMind's GeoIP Python API with their free GeoLite City database. Accuracy may vary, more details here.

Also take a look at this question for other alternatives.

Answer 4

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)])

Answer 5

You can scrape it from a webpage like http://www.geoiptool.com/ for example.