Use the Internet to Find My Location
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.