Whereisthis

This gem is meant to be simple, easy to operate command-line application to help determine the location information from a given ip address or url.

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Installation

$ gem install whereisthis

Usage

Useage is meant to be fairly straightforward. The application even defaults to a help menu.

Ip Address

Get all information about a particular ip address 8.8.8.8:

$ whereisthis 8.8.8.8

or

$ whereisthis -i 8.8.8.8

Url

Get all information about a particular url www.google.com:

$ whereisthis www.google.com

or

$ whereisthis -w www.google.com

Help Menu

Help menu -h or --help or just run the application without any arguments:

  -c, --city           Show the city location information if possible
  -r, --region         Show the region location information if possible
  -C, --Country        Show the country location information if possible
  -g, --gps            Show the latitude and longitude information if possible
  -p, --postal         Show the postal information if possible
  -o, --org            Show the organization information if possible
  -H, --Hostname       Show the hostname information if possible
  -i, --ip=<s>         Specify the ip address to lookup
  -w, --website=<s>    Specify the website url to lookup
  -v, --version        Print version and exit
  -h, --help           Show this message

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.