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SohailRajput
SohailRajput

Reputation: 629

How can I parse the output from HostIP's geolocation API?

If I access the HostIP geolocation API via http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=193.148.1.1, it returns three lines of text:

Country: SPAIN (ES)
City: (Unknown city)
IP: 193.148.1.1

How can I parse that output in PHP to extract the country name?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1749

Answers (6)

John O
John O

Reputation: 71

function _get_country_from_IP($ip) {
  $data = json_decode(file_get_contents("http://ipinfo.io/{$ip}/json"));
  return $country = isset($data->country) ? $data->country : 'UNKNOWN';
}

Upvotes: 0

quenotacom
quenotacom

Reputation: 1

http://api.hostip.info/get_json.php?position=true

{"country_name":"VENEZUELA","country_code":"VE","city":"Caracas","ip":"xxx.xx.xxx.xx","lat":"x.xxx","lng":"-xx.xxxx"}

Upvotes: 0

Imi Borbas
Imi Borbas

Reputation: 3703

You can obtain an XML response from hostip.info if you use the following URL:

http://api.hostip.info/?ip=193.148.1.1

instead of:

http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=193.148.1.1

Then, you can parse the XML which is kind of cleaner than Regex, and probably more immune to the possible changes of output formatting.

This is an example of parsing the output:

$response = file_get_contents('http://api.hostip.info/?ip=193.148.1.1');

$xml = new DOMDocument();
$xml->loadXml($response);

$xpath = new DOMXpath($xml);

$path = '/HostipLookupResultSet/gml:featureMember/Hostip/';

$ip = $xpath->evaluate($path . 'ip')->item(0)->nodeValue;
$city = $xpath->evaluate($path . 'gml:name')->item(0)->nodeValue;
$countryName = $xpath->evaluate($path . 'countryName')->item(0)->nodeValue;
$countryAbbrev = $xpath->evaluate($path . 'countryAbbrev')->item(0)->nodeValue;

Upvotes: 1

Glycerine
Glycerine

Reputation: 7347

Would some regex for PHP help?

if (preg_match('/Country: (.*[^\n\r])/i', $subject, $regs)) {
    $result = $regs[1];
} else {
    $result = "";
}

You will have: 

Match 1: Country: SPAIN (ES)
Group 1: SPAIN (ES)

Upvotes: 1

user557846
user557846

Reputation:

country only: http://api.hostip.info/country.php?ip=193.148.1.1

Upvotes: 0

Jess
Jess

Reputation: 8700

Try these preg_matches

$info = "Country: SPAIN (ES)
City: (Unknown city)
IP: 193.148.1.1";

preg_match("/Country: (.*)\n/", $info, $out);
echo $out[1];

## OR
preg_match ("/Country: (.*) \(.*\)?\n/", $info, $out);
echo $out[1];

Upvotes: 3

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