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milothiesen/ip_to_lat_lon.rb

Created August 11, 2016 20:02
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A simple script that gets the user's public IP address and converts it to latitude and longitude coordinates using two APIs. ipify.org and ipapi.co
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ip_to_lat_lon.rb
# A simple script that gets the user's public IP address and converts it to latitude and longitude coordinates using two APIs. ipify.org and ipapi.co
require "net/http"
ip = Net::HTTP.get(URI("https://api.ipify.org"))
puts "My public IP Address is: " + ip
convert_ip_to_lat_long = Net::HTTP.get(URI("https://ipapi.co/#{ip}/latlong/"))
puts "My lat long is: " + convert_ip_to_lat_long
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