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!

Answer 1

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) 

Answer 2

Try with pygeoip

~$ 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