{"id":7518,"date":"2020-05-04T18:34:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T13:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/?p=7518"},"modified":"2020-06-09T14:11:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T09:11:43","slug":"ip-geolocation-api-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/ip-geolocation-api-review-2\/","title":{"rendered":"IP Geolocation API Review \u2013\u00a0Lightning Fast Geo API You Need!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is quite important for content creators, course makers to know from where their audience is coming from. There are different kinds of products available on the Internet just for this purpose. Most of these products are paid and cost too much. They also need maintainability.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

During this time, there is still a product out there which provides you all this information and more for a price of $0. It not only allows you to get your customer\u2019s location but also provides a whole lot of other information about that location like currency, country code, continent, etc. The product I am talking about is the IP Geolocation API.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this piece, I am going to share with you my two cents about working with this API. How it works and what kind of information it provides. So without any further delay, let\u2019s jump in! \ud83d\ude4c\ud83c\udffb<\/span><\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udccd IP Geolocation API<\/b><\/h2>\n

IP Geolocation API<\/span><\/a> is a child company of API Layer which was founded by Paul Zehetmayr in 2015. Since the launch of API Layer, it has come a long way and provides many amazing products like <\/span>ipstack<\/a><\/strong> and <\/span>ipapi<\/a><\/strong>, etc. Among these products lies the IP Geolocation API that is a free real-time IP to Geolocation JSON API<\/strong> with detailed countries data integration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

IP Geolocation API provides you with the geolocation of a user. Geolocation is the identification or estimation of the real-world geographic location of an internet-connected computer or device. This API also provides country information packaged as convenient JSON objects. This country information includes data from <\/span>ISO 3166<\/span><\/a> (countries and states\/subdivisions ), <\/span>ISO 4217<\/span><\/a> (currency), and last but not the least <\/span>E.164<\/span><\/a> (phone number).<\/span>\u00a0\ud83d\udcaf<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udcbb Experimenting With The API<\/b><\/h2>\n

Now it\u2019s time for me to show you how this API works. Just follow the steps below and you are good to go!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2192 Step #1<\/b><\/h3>\n

The first thing you need to do is to open the <\/span>IP Geolocation API<\/span><\/a> website. Once you have opened the site, scroll down to the <\/span>Usage,<\/b> and get your desired API endpoint. I am using the API with a <\/span>geolocate<\/i><\/b> endpoint to get data of the country I am living in right now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2192 Step #2<\/b><\/h3>\n

The next step is to write a simple program to hit the API. I am using JavaScript to make the API call. You can see the program below. Just copy it in your JavaScript file and run it by typing <\/span>node yourfilename.js<\/i><\/b>. I have also included the response you will receive in the gist below. \u26a1\ufe0f<\/span><\/p>\n

\/\/ importing axios in the file\nconst axios = require('axios');\n\n\/\/ an asychronous function to make the API call\n(async () => {\n    await axios\n        .get('https:\/\/api.ipgeolocationapi.com\/geolocate')\n        .then(({ data }) => console.log(data))\n        .catch((err) => console.log(err));\n})();\n\n\/* Response\n\n{ continent: 'Asia',\n  alpha2: 'PK',\n  alpha3: 'PAK',\n  country_code: '92',\n  international_prefix: '00',\n  ioc: 'PAK',\n  gec: 'PK',\n  name: 'Pakistan',\n  national_destination_code_lengths: [ 2 ],\n  national_number_lengths: [ 9, 10 ],\n  national_prefix: '0',\n  number: '586',\n  region: 'Asia',\n  subregion: 'Southern Asia',\n  world_region: 'APAC',\n  un_locode: 'PK',\n  nationality: 'Pakistani',\n  postal_code: true,\n  unofficial_names: [ 'Pakistan', 'Paquist\u00e1n', '\u30d1\u30ad\u30b9\u30bf\u30f3' ],\n  languages_official: [ 'en', 'ur' ],\n  languages_spoken: [ 'en', 'ur' ],\n  geo:\n   { latitude: 30.375321,\n     latitude_dec: '29.923219680786133',\n     longitude: 69.345116,\n     longitude_dec: '69.35774230957031',\n     max_latitude: 37.084107,\n     max_longitude: 77.8316195,\n     min_latitude: 23.6344999,\n     min_longitude: 60.8729721,\n     bounds: { northeast: [Object], southwest: [Object] } },\n  currency_code: 'PKR',\n  start_of_week: 'monday' }\n\n*\/<\/code><\/pre>\n
\ud83c\udfa9 API Features<\/b><\/h2>\n
After I made the API call to the IP Geolocation API, I received a JSON object with geolocation information about myself. I am going to discuss each of these pieces of information in detail now.<\/span><\/p>\n