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rajwar
rajwar

Reputation: 41

Ruby : How to do mapping IP address with the associated country

I want to Write a command line program that accepts an IP address, and returns the country it's associate with.

For ex: 67.99.163.76 will output 'United States'.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 151

Answers (1)

Simon Stender Boisen
Simon Stender Boisen

Reputation: 3431

You can use the geocode gem. It's very feature rich and have great support for rails and other rack-based frameworks. You can of cause also use it outside those frameworks both as an api and from the console. A small sample from the console:

geocode 67.99.163.76

Latitude: 42.7684

Longitude: -78.8871

Full address: Buffalo, NY 14260, United States

City: Buffalo

State/province: New York

Postal code: 14260

Country: United States

Google map: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.7684,-78.8871

You can do it using nothing but the standard library by querying freegeoip:

require 'net/http'
require 'json'
ip = "67.99.163.76"
uri = URI.parse("http://freegeoip.net/json/#{ip}")
client = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
res = JSON.parse(client.get(uri.request_uri).body)
puts res["country_name"]

Upvotes: 1

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