If you want to determine your public (external) IP address programmatically, you can use the following request :
https://ipapi.co/ip
Suppose you want to redirect your visitors to country-specific subdomains or pages on your website. If you visitor's IP address is
Your application can then redirect the visitors based on the country code fetched above.
Similarly for city, you can use:
If you omit the IP address
8.8.8.8,
you can fetch the country with the following request:https://ipapi.co/8.8.8.8/country
Your application can then redirect the visitors based on the country code fetched above.
Similarly for city, you can use:
https://ipapi.co/8.8.8.8/city
If you omit the IP address
8.8.8.8 from the requests above, the response will show your country / city
respectively.
1) Get the latitude & longitude from
2) Plug it into a maps API
You can use Google Maps, OpenStreetMaps or any other maps API that accepts latitude / longitude. This would display a map image like the one below. You might need a key from the map provider to display the map.
https://ipapi.co/8.8.8.8/latlong
i.e. 37.384500,-122.088100 in this case.
2) Plug it into a maps API
<img src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=37.384500,-122.088100&zoom=9&size=280x200&scale=1&key=YOUR_MAPS_KEY">
You can use Google Maps, OpenStreetMaps or any other maps API that accepts latitude / longitude. This would display a map image like the one below. You might need a key from the map provider to display the map.
Timezone in IANA format i.e. "Area/Location", e.g. "America/Los_Angeles" :
https://ipapi.co/8.8.8.8/timezone
We aggregate data from multiple sources to provide an accurate & up-to date location information.
Our data sources include network service providers, data from
Geonames and
IP geolocation by DB-IP
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