Get the location from an IP Address

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How to get the location (country/city/region/postal code) from an IP Address in 26 languages! Inspired by Randall Degges at ipify!
Bash
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#!/bin/bash
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​
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country=$(curl -s https://api.ipdata.co/country_name?api-key=test)
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echo "My country is: $country"
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NGS (Next Generation Shell)
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country=`curl -s https://api.ipdata.co/country_name?api-key=test`
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echo("My country is: $country")
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Python
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# This example requires the requests library be installed.  You can learn more
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# about the Requests library here: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/
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from requests import get
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​
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country = get('https://api.ipdata.co/country_name?api-key=test').text
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print('My country is: {}'.format(country))
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Ruby
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require "net/http"
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country = Net::HTTP.get(URI("https://api.ipdata.co/country_name?api-key=test"))
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puts "My country is: " + country
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PHP
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<?php
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    $country = file_get_contents('https://api.ipdata.co/country_name?api-key=test');
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    echo "My country is: " . $country;
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?>
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Java
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try (java.util.Scanner s = new java.util.Scanner(new java.net.URL("https://api.ipdata.co/country_name?api-key=test").openStream(), "UTF-8").useDelimiter("\\A")) {
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    System.out.println("My current country is " + s.next());
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} catch (java.io.IOException e) {
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    e.printStackTrace();
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}
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Perl
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use strict;
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use warnings;
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use LWP::UserAgent;
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​
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my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent();
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my $country = $ua->get('https://api.ipdata.co/country_name?api-key=test')->content;
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print 'My country is: '. $country;
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C#
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var httpClient = new HttpClient();
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var country = await httpClient.GetStringAsync("https://api.ipdata.co/country_name?api-key=test");
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Console.WriteLine(quot;My country is: {country}");
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VB.NET
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Dim httpClient As New System.Net.Http.HttpClient
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Dim country As String = Await httpClient.GetStringAsync("https://api.ipdata.co/country_name?api-key=test")
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Console.WriteLine(quot;My country is: {country}")
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NodeJS
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var http = require('http');
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​
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http.get({'host': 'api.ipdata.co?api-key=test', 'port': 80, 'path': '/'}, function(resp) {
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  resp.on('data', function(ip) {
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    console.log("My country is: " + country);
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  });
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});
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Go
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package main
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import (
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        "io/ioutil"
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        "net/http"
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        "os"
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)
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​
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func main() {
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        res, _ := http.Get("https://api.ipdata.co/country_name?api-key=test")
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        country, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
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        os.Stdout.Write(country)
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}
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Racket
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(require net/url)
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​
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(define country (port->string (get-pure-port (string->url "https://api.ipdata.co/country_name?api-key=test"))))
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(printf "My country is: ~a" country)
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Lisp
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;This example requires the drakma http package installed.
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;It can be found here: http://www.weitz.de/drakma
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(let ((stream
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    (drakma:http-request "https://api.ipdata.co/country_name?api-key=test" :want-stream t)))
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  (let ((public-ip (read-line stream)))
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    (format t "My country is: ~A" public-country)))
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Xojo
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Dim s As New HTTPSecureSocket
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Dim t As String = s.Get("https://api.ipdata.co/country_name?api-key=test",10)
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MsgBox "My country is: " + t
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Scala
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val country = scala.io.Source.fromURL("https://api.ipdata.co/country_name?api-key=test").mkString
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println(s"My country is: $country")
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Javascript
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<script type="application/javascript">
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  function getIP(json) {
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    document.write("My country is: ", json.country);
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  }
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</script>
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​
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<script type="application/javascript" src="https://api.ipdata.co/country_name?api-key=test?format=jsonp&callback=getCountry"></script>
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jQuery
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<script type="application/javascript">
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  $(function() {
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    $.getJSON("https://api.ipdata.co/country_name?api-key=test?format=jsonp&callback=?",
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      function(json) {
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        document.write("My country is: ", json.country);
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      }
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    );
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  });
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</script>
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C#
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using System;
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using System.Net;
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namespace Ipdata.Examples {
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    class Program {
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        public static void Main (string[] args) {
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            WebClient webClient = new WebClient();
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            string publicCountry = webClient.DownloadString("https://api.ipdata.co/country_name?api-key=test");
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            Console.WriteLine("My country is: {0}", publicCountry);
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        }
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    }
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}
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Elixir
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:inets.start
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{:ok, {_, _, inet_addr}} = :httpc.request('http://api.ipdata.co?api-key=test')
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:inets.stop
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nim
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import HttpClient
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var country = newHttpClient().getContent("https://api.ipdata.co/country_name?api-key=test")
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echo("My country is: ", country)
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PowerShell
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$response = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri 'https://api.ipdata.co?api-key=test'
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"My country is: $($response.country_name)"
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Lua
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http.Fetch("https://api.ipdata.co/country_name?api-key=test", function(body) print("My country is: " .. body ) end
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PureBasic
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InitNetwork()
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*Buffer = ReceiveHTTPMemory("https://api.ipdata.co/?api-key=test")
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If *Buffer
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  ParseJSON(0, PeekS(*Buffer, MemorySize(*Buffer), #PB_UTF8))
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  FreeMemory(*Buffer)
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  Debug GetJSONString(GetJSONMember(JSONValue(0), "country_name"))
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EndIf
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LiveCode
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put "My country is" && url "https://api.ipdata.co/country_name?api-key=test"
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Objective-C
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NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"https://api.ipdata.co/country_name?api-key=test/"];
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NSString *country = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:url encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];
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NSLog(@"My country is: %@", country);
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Arduino
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if (client.connect("api.ipdata.co?api-key=test", 80)) {
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    Serial.println("connected");
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    client.println("GET / HTTP/1.0");
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    client.println("Host: api.ipdata.co/country_name?api-key=test");
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    client.println();
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} else {
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    Serial.println("connection failed");
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}
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