Is it possible to get the geolocation of an IP address in Terminal?
Not sure what the numbers in an IP address mean, but there must be some logic behind it, so lookup can't be that hard.
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You want a geolocation of an Ip? iplocation.net– FinduilasMay 3, 2016 at 9:31
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Maybe with macappstore.org/geoip– FinduilasMay 3, 2016 at 9:33
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1Or read this article: hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100109053441706– FinduilasMay 3, 2016 at 9:35
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1Also in regard to your latter assertion, no there is no enforced correlation between public IP address values and geography. Companies and organisations lease blocks of IPs; they can do with them whatever they wish.– corticesMay 10, 2016 at 0:25
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You can do this without having to install any additional apps or software. Just use the command curl and the free geo ip website http://freegeoip.app.
Execute the following command in Terminal (I am using Apple's IP for this example):
curl https://freegeoip.app/xml/17.178.96.59
You will get your results in an XML format:
<Response>
<IP>17.178.96.59</IP>
<CountryCode>US</CountryCode>
<CountryName>United States</CountryName>
<RegionCode>CA</RegionCode>
<RegionName>California</RegionName>
<City>Cupertino</City>
<ZipCode>95014</ZipCode>
<TimeZone>America/Los_Angeles</TimeZone>
<Latitude>37.3042</Latitude>
<Longitude>-122.0946</Longitude>
<MetroCode>807</MetroCode>
</Response>
You can even issue the same command using the domain name instead of the IP:
curl https://freegeoip.app/xml/apple.com
Other Formats...
freegeoip.app also supports CSV, JSON and JSONP
CSV:
curl https://freegeoip.app/csv/apple.com
17.178.96.59,US,United States,CA,California,Cupertino,95014,America/Los_Angeles,37.30,-122.09,807
JSON: curl https://freegeoip.app/json/apple.com
{"ip":"17.178.96.59","country_code":"US","country_name":"United States","region_code":"CA","region_name":"California","city":"Cupertino","zip_code":"95014","time_zone":"America/Los_Angeles","latitude":37.3042,"longitude":-122.0946,"metro_code":807}
To check your own ip...
Just omit the ip or domain:
curl https://freegeoip.app/xml/
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10NOTE: linking an IP address to a geographical location is not a hard science. While most addresses will be reliable, there are millions of addresses that, when looked up, will resolve to a general location, like the center of a city, or even the middle of the country. There is an interesting article about how an random farm in the middle of Kansas has been the target of abuse and criminal investigations because a major geolocation service placed their "general location for the USA" flag on their farm. fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm is a link to the article.– NzallMay 3, 2016 at 13:12
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2This API endpoint is deprecated and will stop working on July 1st, 2018. For more information please visit: github.com/apilayer/freegeoip#readme</DeprecationMessage>– 0n1cOn3Jun 28, 2018 at 8:55
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2looks like the new "freegeoip.app" works as expected. "freegeoip.net" was deprecated– dwightkFeb 13, 2019 at 12:10
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There is a small and compact command line tool called gip, written in C++, available at https://github.com/softhub-software-development/gip.
Examples:
# gip softhub.com 91.65.13.31 "Berlin, Berlin, Germany" # gip 91.65.13.31 91.65.13.31 "Berlin, Berlin, Germany" # gip -t google.com 91.65.13.254 "Berlin, Berlin, Germany" 145.254.3.66 "Eschborn, Hessen, Germany" 72.14.194.138 "Mountain View, California, United States" # gip -g softhub.com 52.5244 13.4105
Use https://github.com/maxmind/mmdbinspect with databases from https://github.com/wp-statistics/GeoLite2-City:
mmdbinspect -db "$database_file" "$ip"
You can use jq to further process the output.
