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vzagkid
vzagkid

Reputation:

How to get visitor location ( country, state and city ) using ASP.NET

I want to implement this in ASP.NET. I don't have any idea about how to do so, unfortunately.

Upvotes: 18

Views: 46863

Answers (8)

Joe Ratzer
Joe Ratzer

Reputation: 18549

Using the geolocation API at ipStack (https://ipstack.com), I've used the following:

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $.ajax({
            'url': 'https://www.freegeoip.net/json/@(HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress)',
            'type': 'GET',
            'success': function(data) {
                // for example
                if (data.country_code === "GB") {
                    ... further logic here
                }
            }
        });
    });
</script>

It returns a lot of useful information, e.g.:

{
  "ip": "134.201.250.155",
  "hostname": "134.201.250.155",
  "type": "ipv4",
  "continent_code": "NA",
  "continent_name": "North America",
  "country_code": "US",
  "country_name": "United States",
  "region_code": "CA",
  "region_name": "California",
  "city": "Los Angeles",
  "zip": "90013",
  "latitude": 34.0453,
  "longitude": -118.2413,
  "location": {
    "geoname_id": 5368361,
    "capital": "Washington D.C.",
    "languages": [
        {
          "code": "en",
          "name": "English",
          "native": "English"
        }
    ],
    "country_flag": "https://assets.ipstack.com/images/assets/flags_svg/us.svg",
    "country_flag_emoji": "🇺🇸",
    "country_flag_emoji_unicode": "U+1F1FA U+1F1F8",
    "calling_code": "1",
    "is_eu": false
  },
  "time_zone": {
    "id": "America/Los_Angeles",
    "current_time": "2018-03-29T07:35:08-07:00",
    "gmt_offset": -25200,
    "code": "PDT",
    "is_daylight_saving": true
  },
  "currency": {
    "code": "USD",
    "name": "US Dollar",
    "plural": "US dollars",
    "symbol": "$",
    "symbol_native": "$"
  },
  "connection": {
    "asn": 25876,
    "isp": "Los Angeles Department of Water & Power"
  },
  "security": {
    "is_proxy": false,
    "proxy_type": null,
    "is_crawler": false,
    "crawler_name": null,
    "crawler_type": null,
    "is_tor": false,
    "threat_level": "low",
    "threat_types": null
  }
}

Upvotes: 1

user489998
user489998

Reputation: 4521

There are a few free web services out there which provide IP-to-location services. For instance:

http://freegeoip.net/
http://www.hostip.info/
http://ipinfodb.com/ip_location_api.php

Upvotes: 4

user270331
user270331

Reputation:

First, get the IP address of the visitor using Request.ServerVariables("REMOTE_ADDR"). Bear in mind that the visitor could be using a proxy server in which case the IP address may not be their actual IP address. For the proxy case, you can check if Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR") contains a value. This will be the actual IP address if the proxy server is not an anonymous proxy server.

Then you have 2 options, using a web service or querying data from your own database. Either way, you will need data which can match an IP address of the visitor to their country, state and city.

Upvotes: 2

Michael B.
Michael B.

Reputation: 3430

Here how it is done in asp.net

Request.ServerVariables("REMOTE_ADDR")

Get a copy of IP adress database by location here

http://www.maxmind.com/

Upvotes: 10

Pure.Krome
Pure.Krome

Reputation: 86957

IPAddressExtensions is a free codeplex class library if all you just want is the Country the IP is located from.

Upvotes: 2

anishMarokey
anishMarokey

Reputation: 11397

by using 

string userHost = Request.ServerVariables["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"];
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(userHost) || 
    String.Compare(userHost, "unknown", true) == 0)
{
    userHost = Request.UserHostAddress;
}

you will get users ip address . Based on this ip address you can find out visitor location details by calling some webservice .

Upvotes: 4

Shoban
Shoban

Reputation: 23016

Why not use Google Analytics? You will get more than what you need. Alternatively you can get the client's ip and use service like ip2location to get the location.

Check this similar question as well. finding clients location in asp.net page.

Upvotes: 5

Umesh
Umesh

Reputation: 1242

Get the client IP and find the location of IP using any IP to geo location Mapping service.

Upvotes: 0

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