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mossaab
mossaab

Reputation: 1834

Visitor location from facebook profile

I want to know which city a visitor of my web page comes from in the following way:

    1. If the visitor has a public Facebook profile,
       then return her Facebook location.
    2. Otherwise, return her location based on the IP address.

I know how to do (2). But is there a way to do (1)?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1256

Answers (3)

picsoung
picsoung

Reputation: 6529

You can use MaxMind API to get user's location based on his IP http://www.maxmind.com/app/ip-location

And to get user's location from his profile you can use Graph API https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/

Upvotes: 0

C3roe
C3roe

Reputation: 96363

Just question the Graph API for user.location – https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/

Upvotes: 0

Igy
Igy

Reputation: 43816

Without having them authorise your application, no.

Otherwise, a basic call to /USER_ID in the API will return their locale

Upvotes: 1

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