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How can I geolocate a bunch of IP addresses with Python?

I have a list of ~300 IP addresses that I would like to plot on a map of the world. Can you explain roughly how I could do that with Python?

EDIT: I'm also interested in the visualization part of the question

Solution

  • You can use the hostip.info API. For example:

    http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=64.233.160.0

    So your Python code using urllib2 would be:

    import urllib2
f = urllib2.urlopen("http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=64.233.160.0")
data = f.read()
f.close()

    Then retrieve the data from that returned result.

    If you require longitude and latitude, use the position=true flag:

    http://api.hostip.info/get_html.php?ip=64.233.160.0&position=true