How to get visitor s location i e country using geolocation

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I m trying to extend the native geolocation function  if navigator geolocation        navigator geolocation getCurrentPosition function position            var latitude   position coords latitude          var longitude   position coords longitude              so that I can use the visitor s country name  perhaps return an informative array    So far all I ve been able to find are functions that display a google maps interface but none actually gave what I want  except for this library which worked well in this example but for some reason didn t work on my computer  I m not sure why that went wrong there   Anyways  do you know how I can simply return an array containing information like country  city  etc  from latitude and longitude values

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you can t get city location by ip  here you can get country with jquery     get  http   ip-api com json   function response    console log response country      jsonp

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See ipdata co a service I built that is fast and has reliable performance thanks to having 10 global endpoints each able to handle  10 000 requests per second      This answer uses a  test  API Key that is very limited and only meant for testing a few calls  Signup for your own Free API Key and get up to 1500 requests daily for development    This snippet will return the details of your current ip  To lookup other ip addresses  simply append the ip to the https   api ipdata co api-key test url eg   https   api ipdata co 1 1 1 1 api-key test   The API also provides an is eu field indicating whether the user is in an EU country    x000D   x000D    get  https   api ipdata co api-key test   function  response    x000D          response   html JSON stringify response  null  4    x000D      jsonp    x000D   lt script src  https   ajax googleapis com ajax libs jquery 2 1 1 jquery min js  gt  lt  script gt  x000D   lt pre id  response  gt  lt  pre gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    Here s the fiddle  https   jsfiddle net ipdata 6wtf0q4g 922   I also wrote this detailed analysis of 8 of the best IP Geolocation APIs

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You don t need to locate the user if you only need their country  You can look their IP address up in any IP-to-location service  like maxmind  ipregistry or ip2location   This will be accurate most of the time   If you really need to get their location  you can get their lat lng with that method  then query Google s or Yahoo s reverse geocoding service

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You can use my service  http   ipinfo io  for this  It will give you the client IP  hostname  geolocation information  city  region  country  area code  zip code etc  and network owner  Here s a simple example that logs the city and country     get  https   ipinfo io   function response        console log response city  response country       jsonp      Here s a more detailed JSFiddle example that also prints out the full response information  so you can see all of the available details  http   jsfiddle net zK5FN 2   The location will generally be less accurate than the native geolocation details  but it doesn t require any user permission

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You can use ip-api io to get visitor s location  It supports IPv6   As a bonus it allows to check whether ip address is a tor node  public proxy or spammer    JavaScript Code   function getIPDetails         var ipAddress   document getElementById  txtIP   value       var xhttp   new XMLHttpRequest        xhttp onreadystatechange   function              if  this readyState    4  amp  amp  this status    200                console log JSON parse xhttp responseText                         xhttp open  GET    http   ip-api io json     ipAddress  true       xhttp send        lt input type  text  id  txtIP  placeholder  Enter the ip address    gt   lt button onclick  getIPDetails    gt Get IP Details lt  button gt    jQuery Code     document  ready function                  btnGetIpDetail   click function                  if      txtIP   val                            alert  IP address is reqired                    return false                              getJSON  http   ip-api io json         txtIP   val                     function  result                         alert  Country Name      result country name                       console log result                                              lt script src  https   code jquery com jquery-1 12 4 js  gt  lt  script gt   lt div gt       lt input type  text  id  txtIP    gt       lt button id  btnGetIpDetail  gt Get Location of IP lt  button gt   lt  div gt

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For developers looking for a full-featured geolocation utility  you can have a look at geolocator js  I m the author    Example below will first try HTML5 Geolocation API to obtain the exact coordinates  If fails or rejected  it will fallback to Geo-IP look-up  Once it gets the coordinates  it will reverse-geocode the coordinates into an address   var options         enableHighAccuracy  true      timeout  6000      maximumAge  0      desiredAccuracy  30      fallbackToIP  true     if HTML5 geolocation fails or rejected     addressLookup  true     get detailed address information     timezone  true       map   my-map     this will even create a map for you     geolocator locate options  function  err  location        console log err    location         It supports geo-location  via HTML5 or IP lookups   geocoding  address look-ups  reverse geocoding   distance  amp  durations  timezone information and more

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You can use your IP address to get your  country    city    isp  etc    Just use one of the web-services that provide you with a simple api like http   ip-api com which provide you a JSON service at http   ip-api com json  Simple send a Ajax  or Xhr  request and then parse the JSON to get whatever data you need   var requestUrl    http   ip-api com json      ajax     url  requestUrl    type   GET     success  function json          console log  My country is      json country          error  function err          console log  Request failed  error      err

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A free and easy to use service is provided at Webtechriser  click here to read the article   called wipmania   This one is a JSONP service and requires plain javascript coding with HTML  It can also be used in JQuery  I modified the code a bit to change the output format and this is what I ve used and found to be working   it s the code of my HTML page    x000D   x000D   lt html gt  x000D       lt body gt  x000D           lt p id  loc  gt  lt  p gt  x000D   x000D   x000D           lt script type  text javascript  gt  x000D              var a   document getElementById  loc    x000D   x000D                 function jsonpCallback data     x000D               a innerHTML    Latitude      data latitude    x000D                                  lt br  gt Longitude      data longitude    x000D                                  lt br  gt Country      data address country   x000D                  x000D           lt  script gt  x000D           lt script src  http   api wipmania com jsonp callback jsonpCallback  x000D                       type  text javascript  gt  lt  script gt  x000D   x000D   x000D       lt  body gt  x000D   lt  html gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    PLEASE NOTE  This service gets the location of the visitor without prompting the visitor to choose whether to share their location  unlike the HTML 5 geolocation API  the code that you ve written   Therefore  privacy is compromised  So  you should make judicial use of this service

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A very easy to use service is provided by ws geonames org  Here s an example URL      http   ws geonames org countryCode lat 43 7534932 amp lng 28 5743187 amp type JSON   And here s some  jQuery  code which I ve added to your code   if  navigator geolocation        navigator geolocation getCurrentPosition function position              getJSON  http   ws geonames org countryCode                 lat  position coords latitude              lng  position coords longitude              type   JSON             function result                alert  Country      result countryName     n     Code      result countryCode                            Try it on jsfiddle net

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