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13 best IP geolocation APIs & services for PHP #3786

Closed Achie10 closed 3 years ago

Achie10 commented 3 years ago

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13 best IP geolocation APIs & services for PHP

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APIs enable mission-critical capabilities for many platforms. Fraud detection for online stores and banking can depend on IP geolocation services using IP lookup to detect whether a user’s IP address matches their stated country. But location information can be faked by VPNs, proxies, and anonymizers (TOR) to circumvent IP lookup. So if you’re looking to geolocate an IP address in PHP, can any detect this? This article will contain 10 of the best IP geolocation APIs for determining a user’s location as well as three other potentially useful APIs. All use PHP, the well-known scripting language and many offer free IP geolocation plans. But even when APIs have similar functions, there can be significant differences between them. Functionality can be different or locked behind pricing tiers.

Key takeaways:

  1. Abstract API
  2. MaxMind
  3. Ipgeolocation
  4. Ip2location
  5. Ipstack
  6. DB-IP
  7. Ip-info
  8. Ipapi
  9. Positionstack
  10. Ipdata
  11. meteoblue
  12. Mapquest

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hectorkambow commented 3 years ago

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