Finding a new Geo IP API

[o355]

Freegeoip.net is being depreciated on July 1st.

Time to find a new API!

[o355]

So here's the deal. There really is no good API that's free and has HTTPS support. Can't get everything free in life.

To make sure there is a geo ip system in PyWeather that supports API we will use ipstack for HTTPS requests and ip-api.com for HTTP requests. The user will be able to decide which API they want to use.

More info will come soon.

[o355]

Upon further investigation, ipstack isn't fesible, and the free plan doesn't include SSL support.

ip-api.com it is

[o355]

ip-api.com is being blocked by my Pi-Hole, and is found on many ad server lists. As such, we need to find a new Geo IP API.

Then again, freegeoip.net was also blocked by my Pi-Hole as well, and I had to manually whitelist it. However, I want to make sure that the API we're using isn't blocked by any firewalls.

If we can't find a new API by v1.0.0 the Geo IP feature may have to be dropped.

[BenjaminUrquhart]

I have a content blocker on my computer, but this one seems to work: https://ipapi.co/

It has https, and there shouldn't be any issues with rate limits (unless someone checks their local weather 1000 times a day). It also seems to give latitude/longitude coordinates. Example query: curl 'https://ipapi.co/json/'

Output: { "ip": "8.8.8.8", "city": "Mountain View", "region": "California", "region_code": "CA", "country": "US", "country_name": "United States", "continent_code": "NA", "in_eu": false, "postal": "94035", "latitude": 37.386, "longitude": -122.0838, "timezone": "America/Los_Angeles", "utc_offset": "-0700", "country_calling_code": "+1", "currency": "USD", "languages": "en-US,es-US,haw,fr", "asn": "AS15169", "org": "Google LLC" }

Looking at your code, it looks like the 2 APIs are interchangeable without editing the parser

[o355]

Alright that's good to hear.

[o355]

Looks like we found a new Geo API, so I'm closing this issue for now.