'How to find location using ip address [closed]

I have my site hosted on pythonanywhere.com and I can get my site visitor's ip address from access log. my question is

  • Is it possible to get exact location of that visitor ?
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Solution 1:[1]

You can get the location of your visitor from its IP address. This is a process called geolocation.

Since you need to get the exact location, you must know that its accuracy depends on multiple factors, and all geolocation APIs are not equally accurate. I managed to get the best result with Abstract API (it has free and commercial plans). You query it with a get request, and you receive a JSON response with latitude, longitude, country, city...

AS the comment under your question states, some visitors can hide their real IP by using a VPN service, and among the JSON response, this API can tell you if the IP belongs to a VPN service, so you know if the visitor was hiding his location and IP.

Solution 2:[2]

You can use some API service for that.

For example, the https://apiip.net , their API provides a lot of info about the IP, also you can request XML responses if needed.

Simple GET call:

https://apiip.net/api/check?ip=67.250.186.196&accessKey={your_api_key}

The response:

{
  "ip": "67.250.186.196",
  "continentCode": "NA",
  "continentName": "North America",
  "countryCode": "US",
  "countryName": "United States",
  "countryNameNative": "United States",
  "city": "New York",
  "postalCode": "10001",
  "latitude": 40.8271,
  "longitude": -73.9359,
  "capital": "Washington D.C.",
  "phoneCode": "1",
  "countryFlagEmoj": "??",
  "countryFlagEmojUnicode": "U+1F1FA U+1F1F8",
  "isEu": false,
  "languages": {
    "en": {
      "code": "en",
      "name": "English",
      "native": "English"
    }
  },
  "currency": {
    "code": "USD",
    "name": "US Dollar",
    "symbol": "$",
    "number": "840",
    "rates": {
      "EURUSD": 1.11
     }
  },
  "timeZone": {
    "id": "America/New_York",
    "currentTime": "10/26/2021, 2:54:10 PM",
    "code": "EDT",
    "timeZoneName": "EDT",
    "utcOffset": -14400
  },
  "connection": {
    "asn": 12271,
    "isp": "Charter Communications Inc"
  },
  "security": {
    "isPublicProxy": false,
    "isResidentialProxy": false,
    "isTorExitNode": false,
    "network": "67.250.176.0/20"
  }
}

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