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get city and country via vanilla python using ifconfig.co
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import urllib.request | |
import json | |
def get_public_ip(url): | |
try: | |
req = urllib.request.Request( | |
url, | |
headers={'User-Agent': 'curl/7.74.0'} | |
) | |
with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as response: | |
ip = response.read().decode('utf-8').strip() | |
return ip | |
except urllib.error.HTTPError as e: | |
return f"HTTP Error: {e.code}" | |
except urllib.error.URLError as e: | |
return f"URL Error: {e.reason}" | |
except Exception as e: | |
return f"Error: {e}" | |
data_as_str = get_public_ip(url='https://ifconfig.co/json') | |
data_as_dict = json.loads(data_as_str) | |
print(f"City: {data_as_dict['region_name']}, Country: {data_as_dict['country']}") |
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