How To Geolocate an IP Address with Python

Python 2.7.3

In order to geolocate an IP address with Python you will need a database to match an IP to a location. I am using the Maxmind database, which is available for free.

wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
gunzip GeoLiteCity.dat.gz

Next, we install the Pure Python API for Maxmind's GeoIP databases (https://github.com/appliedsec/pygeoip)

sudo pip install pygeoip

Code

import pygeoip
rawdata = pygeoip.GeoIP('/home/user/GeoLiteCity.dat')
def ipquery(ip):
    data = rawdata.record_by_name(ip)
    country = data['country_name']
    city = data['city']
    longi = data['longitude']
    lat = data['latitude']
    print '[x] '+str(city)+',' +str(country)
    print '[x] Latitude: '+str(lat)+ ', Longitude: '+ str(longi)

Running the code

UPDATE - PYTHON 3 (Ubuntu 16.04)

sudo pip3 install pygeoip

Download Maxmind location-data

user@user:~$ cd Desktop
user@user:~/Desktop$ mkdir geolocate
user@user:~/Desktop$ cd geolocate
user@user:~/Desktop/geolocate$ wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
user@user:~/Desktop/geolocate$ gunzip GeoLiteCity.dat.gz

Code (save as geo.py in folder geolocate)

import pygeoip
rawdata = pygeoip.GeoIP('/home/user/Desktop/geolocate/GeoLiteCity.dat')
def ipquery(ip):
    data = rawdata.record_by_name(ip)
    country = data['country_name']
    city = data['city']
    longi = data['longitude']
    lat = data['latitude']
    print ('[x] '+str(city)+',' +str(country))
    print ('[x] Latitude: '+str(lat)+ ', Longitude: '+ str(longi))

#optional

ip = input("What's your ip? ")
print (ipquery(ip))

Run the code

user@user:~/Desktop/geolocate$ python3 geo.py
What's your ip? 207.38.138.230
[x] New York,United States
[x] Latitude: 40.7449, Longitude: -73.9782