How to geolocate an IP in Python

Let’s dive right in. Use pip installer to add Cloudmersive’s Validate API Client:

pip install git+https://github.com/Cloudmersive/Cloudmersive.APIClient.Python.Validate.git

Then all that’s left is to call i_p_address_post:

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_validate_api_client
from cloudmersive_validate_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint
# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_validate_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
# Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
# configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer'
# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_validate_api_client.IPAddressApi(cloudmersive_validate_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
value = 'value_example' # str | IP address to geolocate, e.g. \"55.55.55.55\".  The input is a string so be sure to enclose it in double-quotes.
try:
    # Geolocate an IP address
    api_response = api_instance.i_p_address_post(value)
    pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
    print("Exception when calling IPAddressApi->i_p_address_post: %s\n" % e)

And that’s all there is to it.

Let’s look at an example result for 11.11.11.11:

{
  "CountryCode": "US",
  "CountryName": "United States",
  "City": "Bullard",
  "RegionCode": "TX",
  "RegionName": "Texas",
  "ZipCode": "75757",
  "TimezoneStandardName": "America/Chicago",
  "Latitude": 32.1095,
  "Longitude": -95.3342
}

Note that we are provided with quite a bit of useful information for the IP address in question, including the city, country, and geographical coordinates.