Geo Location extracted from visitors ip address
Tim Chase
python.list at tim.thechases.com
Fri Jul 5 15:58:09 EDT 2013
On 2013-07-05 22:08, Νίκος Gr33k wrote:
> Is there a way to extract out of some environmental variable the
> Geo location of the user being the city the user visits out website
> from?
>
> Perhaps by utilizing his originated ip address?
Yep. You can get an 11MB database (17MB uncompressed)
http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/downloadable/
which you can use to either populate an existing database with
the .CSV data there, or use the binary data blob in concert with the
Python API
https://github.com/maxmind/geoip-api-python # Python + C
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pygeoip/ # pure Python
Just be sure to adhere to the licensing terms.
-tkc
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