Sometimes you may need to get the real-world geographic location information from the visitor's IP address in your web application. IP Geolocation API ipgeolocationapi.com is a free real-time IP to Geolocation JSON API, which provides you the real-world geographic location of an Internet-connected computer terminal or device.
IP Geolocation API is free and easy to use and comes under MIT license. Just send HTTP GET request to https://api.ipgeolocationapi.com with different parameters and get the JSON result. For example, the following HTTP GET request will give you a location of the specified IP address.
https://api.ipgeolocationapi.com/geolocate/91.213.103.0 HTTP/1.1
{
"continent": "Europe",
"address_format": "{{recipient}}\n{{street}}\n{{postalcode}} {{city}}\n{{country}}",
"alpha2": "DE",
"alpha3": "DEU",
"country_code": "49",
"international_prefix": "00",
"ioc": "GER",
"gec": "GM",
"name": "Germany",
"national_destination_code_lengths": [
2,
3,
4,
5
],
"national_number_lengths": [
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11
],
"national_prefix": "0",
"number": "276",
"region": "Europe",
"subregion": "Western Europe",
"world_region": "EMEA",
"un_locode": "DE",
"nationality": "German",
"eu_member": true,
"eea_member": true,
"vat_rates": {
"standard": 19,
"reduced": [
7
],
"super_reduced": null,
"parking": null
},
"postal_code": true,
"unofficial_names": [
"Germany",
"Deutschland",
"Allemagne",
"Alemania",
"ドイツ",
"Duitsland"
],
"languages_official": [
"de"
],
"languages_spoken": [
"de"
],
"geo": {
"latitude": 51.165691,
"latitude_dec": "51.20246505737305",
"longitude": 10.451526,
"longitude_dec": "10.382203102111816",
"max_latitude": 55.0815,
"max_longitude": 15.0418962,
"min_latitude": 47.2701115,
"min_longitude": 5.8663425,
"bounds": {
"northeast": {
"lat": 55.0815,
"lng": 15.0418962
},
"southwest": {
"lat": 47.2701115,
"lng": 5.8663425
}
}
},
"currency_code": "EUR",
"start_of_week": "monday"
}
The following request returns the country information specified by the ISO country code.
https://api.ipgeolocationapi.com/countries/us HTTP/1.1
The above request will return the information about USA since we passed country code parameter "us".
{
"continent": "North America",
"address_format": "{{recipient}}\n{{street}}\n{{city}} {{region_short}} {{postalcode}}\n{{country}}",
"alpha2": "US",
"alpha3": "USA",
"country_code": "1",
"international_prefix": "011",
"ioc": "USA",
"gec": "US",
"name": "United States of America",
"national_destination_code_lengths": [
3
],
"national_number_lengths": [
10
],
"national_prefix": "1",
"number": "840",
"region": "Americas",
"subregion": "Northern America",
"world_region": "AMER",
"un_locode": "US",
"nationality": "American",
"postal_code": true,
"unofficial_names": [
"United States",
"Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika",
"États-Unis",
"Estados Unidos",
"アメリカ合衆国",
"Verenigde Staten"
],
"languages_official": [
"en"
],
"languages_spoken": [
"en"
],
"geo": {
"latitude": 37.09024,
"latitude_dec": "39.44325637817383",
"longitude": -95.712891,
"longitude_dec": "-98.95733642578125",
"max_latitude": 71.5388001,
"max_longitude": -66.885417,
"min_latitude": 18.7763,
"min_longitude": 170.5957,
"bounds": {
"northeast": {
"lat": 71.5388001,
"lng": -66.885417
},
"southwest": {
"lat": 18.7763,
"lng": 170.5957
}
}
},
"currency_code": "USD",
"start_of_week": "sunday"
}
The following request will return the estimated geolocation of the visitor without detecting their actual IP address.
https://api.ipgeolocationapi.com/geolocate HTTP/1.1
{
"continent": "Asia",
"alpha2": "UZ",
"alpha3": "UZB",
"country_code": "998",
"international_prefix": "810",
"ioc": "UZB",
"gec": "UZ",
"name": "Uzbekistan",
"national_destination_code_lengths": [
2
],
"national_number_lengths": [
9
],
"national_prefix": "8",
"number": "860",
"region": "Asia",
"subregion": "Central Asia",
"world_region": "EMEA",
"un_locode": "UZ",
"nationality": "Uzbekistani",
"postal_code": true,
"unofficial_names": [
"Uzbekistan",
"Usbekistan",
"Ouzbékistan",
"Uzbekistán",
"ウズベキスタン",
"Oezbekistan"
],
"languages_official": [
"uz",
"ru"
],
"languages_spoken": [
"uz",
"ru"
],
"geo": {
"latitude": 41.377491,
"latitude_dec": "41.77239227294922",
"longitude": 64.585262,
"longitude_dec": "63.14588928222656",
"max_latitude": 45.590075,
"max_longitude": 73.148946,
"min_latitude": 37.1722571,
"min_longitude": 55.9982179,
"bounds": {
"northeast": {
"lat": 45.590075,
"lng": 73.148946
},
"southwest": {
"lat": 37.1722571,
"lng": 55.9982179
}
}
},
"currency_code": "UZS",
"start_of_week": "monday"
}
Thus, it is free and easy to use IP Geolocation API. Contribute to IP Geolocation API source on Github.
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