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naughty boy
naughty boy

Reputation: 2149

How can I estimate a user's physical location?

I would like to know the ways in which I could estimate a user's physical location without having to request geolocation permissions on their browser. For example sites like cragslist, and gmail can estimate my location however I never granted them geolocation permissions through my browser.

So how are they doing this? through my IP? which service "translates" the IP to a physical location estimate? and can this be done exclusively on the client side?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 540

Answers (2)

Kodie Grantham
Kodie Grantham

Reputation: 2032

http://ipinfo.io/ has a very nice and free api for getting estimated locations from IP address.

Upvotes: 1

Dani
Dani

Reputation: 15069

The ip address - there are plenty of services that you can submit the ip and get back the location, and even if it's a proxy ip or a real one.

Of-course it's not GPS based, and can eaily tricked using vpn.

here is one free geo ip

Upvotes: 1

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