How to Get User Ip Location Using Python

This tutorial provides a step-by-step guide on how to determine the location of a user using their IP address in Python. The tutorial starts by importing the requests library, which allows for making HTTP requests.

It then uses the ipapi.co service to make a request for the location data of a specified IP address, which is returned as a JSON object. The tutorial shows how to access different location data within the JSON object, such as city, region, and country.

Additionally, it mentions other libraries and APIs that can be used to get location details, like latitude and longitude, city, and country name. The tutorial concludes with a complete code example that demonstrates how to use the ipapi.co service to look up the location of an IP address.

Step-1

First, you will need to import the requests library, which allows you to make HTTP requests in Python. You can do this by running the following command


import requests

Step-2

Next, you will need to make a request to a service that can look up the location of an IP address. One such service is ipapi.co. You can make a request to this service using the following code:


ip = '0.0.0.0' # replace with the IP address you want to look up

response = requests.get(f'https://ipapi.co/{ip}/json/')

result = response.json()

Note: The above IP address is an example you can replace it with the IP you want to track.

The response.json() method parses the JSON data returned by the API and returns it as a Python dictionary. You can access the different data in the dictionary, such as the city, region, and country. For example, to get the city:


print(result['city'])

You can access other data in the dictionary as well, such as the region, country, and latitude and longitude coordinates.

You can also use a library geopy to get location details like the name of the city and the country from the latitude and longitude.

You can also use other APIs like IP-API, IPInfo, etc to get the location details.

Here’s an example of complete python code that demonstrates how to use the ipapi.co service to look up the location of an IP address:


import requests

ip = '0.0.0.0' # replace with the IP address you want to look up

response = requests.get(f'https://ipapi.co/{ip}/json/')

result = response.json()

print(result)