[Geolocation] Get the region by IP

[alex5imon]

We can get the geolocation with one of these free services: http://www.iplocation.net/ http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation for example

[skarbat]

also ipinfo.io which is also the service used by tzupdate if i'm not mistaken

[hyperknot]

But why do we need it? We already have it from tzupdate!

On 07/04/2014 17:39, Alex Simon wrote:

We can get the geolocation with one of these free services: http://www.iplocation.net/ http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation for example

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/KanoComputing/kano-profile/issues/23.

[hyperknot]

But if you want to do it properly, here is the MaxMind free database: http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/

And the Python API for it: https://github.com/maxmind/geoip-api-python https://github.com/appliedsec/pygeoip

To get your external IP, you can use: curl ipecho.net/plain

On 07/04/2014 17:39, Alex Simon wrote:

We can get the geolocation with one of these free services: http://www.iplocation.net/ http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation for example

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/KanoComputing/kano-profile/issues/23.

[alex5imon]

The idea is that we need a more or less accurate geolocation (not just country/timezone)

[skarbat]

@zsero point is accurate. Just to keep info together, tzupdate log is always saved under /var/log/tzupdate.log and the syslog if it's enabled. It is created by the initial udhcpc script:

https://github.com/KanoComputing/kano-toolset/blob/master/udhcpc/kano.script#L47

[mkeegan]

I've just used the MaxMind database for Shopify and it works well.

[hyperknot]

I've just found this, looks exactly made for our purpose: http://www.telize.com/

We need to request this: http://www.telize.com/geoip

Data looks like this: { country: "United Kingdom", dma_code: "0", timezone: "Europe/London", area_code: "0", ip: "92.24.107.28", asn: "AS13285", continent_code: "EU", isp: "TalkTalk Communications Limited", longitude: -0.13, latitude: 51.5, country_code: "GB", country_code3: "GBR" }

or like this:

{ "timezone": "Europe\/Rome", "isp": "Prometeus di Daniela Agro", "region_code": "18", "country": "Italy", "dma_code": "0", "area_code": "0", "region": "Umbria", "ip": "37.247.54.42", "asn": "AS34971", "continent_code": "EU", "city": "Milano", "longitude": 12.6, "latitude": 42.7833, "country_code": "IT", "country_code3": "ITA" }

On 08/04/2014 11:08, Mathew Keegan wrote:

I've just used the MaxMind database for Shopify and it works well.

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[hyperknot]

I've added get_ip_location to utils.py.

def get_ip_location():
    import requests
    try:
        r = requests.get('http://www.telize.com/geoip')
        if r.ok:
            return r.ok, None, r.json()
        else:
            return r.ok, r.text, None
    except Exception:
        return False, 'Connection error', None

you use it like this (pprint is for pretty printing only):

from pprint import pprint

success, error, data = get_location()
if success:
    pprint(data)
else:
    print error

[hyperknot]

Two possible ways to do it:

1. Save location upon registering. The problem with this is that users who register on-line won't have this info
2. Save location at syncing, but only if it's not been saved

[hyperknot]

added get_location to kano.utils
returns a dict in this format:

{'continent_code': u'EU',
 'country': u'United Kingdom',
 'country_code': u'GB',
 'latitude': 51.5,
 'longitude': -0.13}

now adding it to profile sync

[hyperknot]

Implemented a less precise version, which only includes country_code and continent_code

@tancredi 's suggestion is not to do it from the client, but just use the server. I'm removing it now.