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Obtaining latitude and longitude from shell using freegeoip

I'm trying to obtain latitude and longitude using freegeoip from shell. When I try the following commands:

$ curl -s --get http://freegeoip.net/json/74.201.113.118 | grep -Po '(?<="latitude":)[^,}]*'

$ curl -s --get http://freegeoip.net/json/74.201.113.118 | grep -Po '(?<="longitude":)[^,}]*'

I'm able to obtain some values, but whenever I replace the ip adress with my own, the command just outputs 0. Any idea why?

Solution

  • The problem was using private ip. Since private ip is location independent, freegeoip.net retrieves nothing. Using public ip instead of private ip solves the problem.