What python libraries can tell me approximate location and time zone given an IP address?

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ensnare picture ensnare · Mar 30, 2010 · Viewed 48.6k times · Source

Looking to implement better geo-location with Python.

Answer

doug picture doug · Mar 30, 2010

Hostip.info is an open-source project with the goal to build/maintain a database mapping IP addresses to cities. Their about page explains the data sources relied on to populate this database.

Using HostIP, there are two ways to get location data from an IP address:

They also have a well-designed and easy-to-use RESTFUL API: just pass in your ip address after the i***p=*** in the GET request string):

import urllib

response = urllib.urlopen('http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=12.215.42.19&position=true').read()

print(response)

Second, the Project Website also makes its complete database available for download.

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