How to Geolocate an IP Address in Node.JS

Safety and security are of the utmost importance when facilitating online transactions, and knowing how your services are being accessed will help you protect both your and your clients’ personal information. Furthermore, knowing the location of your users will also help you personalize and improve their experience with your organization. Geolocation services are useful for all businesses that put an emphasis on building client confidence and securing private data, and the following API will show you how to geolocate any IP address and return the exact location information, including latitude and longitude, of the access site.

Our first step in running this API is to install our client software:

npm install cloudmersive-validate-api-client –save

Or, you can add this snippet to your package.json:

"dependencies": {
    "cloudmersive-validate-api-client": "^1.2.4"
  }

Then we can call our function, IPAddressPost:

var CloudmersiveValidateApiClient = require('cloudmersive-validate-api-client');
var defaultClient = CloudmersiveValidateApiClient.ApiClient.instance;
// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
var Apikey = defaultClient.authentications['Apikey'];
Apikey.apiKey = 'YOUR API KEY';
var apiInstance = new CloudmersiveValidateApiClient.IPAddressApi();
var value = "value_example"; // String | IP address to geolocate, e.g. \"55.55.55.55\".  The input is a string so be sure to enclose it in double-quotes.
var callback = function(error, data, response) {
  if (error) {
    console.error(error);
  } else {
    console.log('API called successfully. Returned data: ' + data);
  }
};
apiInstance.iPAddressPost(value, callback);

Now, you can further ensure improved user experience and safety through your website or online system. Your API Key can be accessed from the Cloudmersive website; this will give you access to up to 800 free calls per month across our library of APIs.