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ShīnChvën ✨

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Use the Internet to Find My Location

Wed Sep 25 2024

To get your location using network-based methods in Python, you can use the requests library to access an API that provides geolocation information based on your IP address. One popular option is the ipinfo.io API.

Here's an example:

import requests

def get_location():
    try:
        response = requests.get('https://ipinfo.io')
        data = response.json()

        location = data.get('loc', '').split(',')
        city = data.get('city', 'N/A')
        region = data.get('region', 'N/A')
        country = data.get('country', 'N/A')

        latitude = location[0] if location else 'N/A'
        longitude = location[1] if len(location) > 1 else 'N/A'

        return {
            'city': city,
            'region': region,
            'country': country,
            'latitude': latitude,
            'longitude': longitude
        }
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Failed to get location: {e}")
        return None

location_info = get_location()
print(location_info)

Make sure you have the requests library installed. You can install it using pip if you haven't already:

pip install requests

This script sends a request to the ipinfo.io API, receives the data in JSON format, and extracts the location information such as the city, region, country, and coordinates. Remember that this kind of geolocation based on IP address may not be very precise.