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Jenuel Oras Ganawed
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Get IP Clients Addresses

#api #ip #webdev

In this post, I would like to share something away or maybe the better way to get the clients API for Security Purposes. What I mean by security is the identity of what IP the client's device is using. So that if your system Identifies that there is a login using different IP you can set a response to those kinds of things so, How do we get clients addresses.

There are services that actually will do that for us (Hope This helps! 👍👍👌😁✋):

Cloudflare

Try it: https://www.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace

// If your site is on Cloudflare, then you can use '/cdn-cgi/trace' instead
$.get('https://www.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace', function(data) {
    console.log(data)
})
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Returns:

fl=4f422
h=www.cloudflare.com
ip=54.193.27.106
ts=1575967108.245
visit_scheme=https
uag=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36 Hypothesis-Via
colo=SJC
http=http/1.1
loc=US
tls=TLSv1.3
sni=plaintext
warp=off
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Limitations:
Returns plain text

DB-IP

Try it: http://api.db-ip.com/addrinfo?api_key=&addr=

Returns:

{
  "address": "116.12.250.1",
  "country": "SG",
  "stateprov": "Central Singapore",
  "city": "Singapore"
}
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Limitations:

2,500 requests per day
Doesn't support JSONP callbacks
Requires IP address parameter
Requires an email address to get your API key
No SSL (https) with the free plan

Geobytes

Try it: http://gd.geobytes.com/GetCityDetails

$.getJSON('http://gd.geobytes.com/GetCityDetails?callback=?', function(data) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
});
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Returns:

{
  "geobytesforwarderfor": "",
  "geobytesremoteip": "116.12.250.1",
  "geobytesipaddress": "116.12.250.1",
  "geobytescertainty": "99",
  "geobytesinternet": "SA",
  "geobytescountry": "Saudi Arabia",
  "geobytesregionlocationcode": "SASH",
  "geobytesregion": "Ash Sharqiyah",
  "geobytescode": "SH",
  "geobyteslocationcode": "SASHJUBA",
  "geobytescity": "Jubail",
  "geobytescityid": "13793",
  "geobytesfqcn": "Jubail, SH, Saudi Arabia",
  "geobyteslatitude": "27.004999",
  "geobyteslongitude": "49.660999",
  "geobytescapital": "Riyadh ",
  "geobytestimezone": "+03:00",
  "geobytesnationalitysingular": "Saudi Arabian ",
  "geobytespopulation": "22757092",
  "geobytesnationalityplural": "Saudis",
  "geobytesmapreference": "Middle East ",
  "geobytescurrency": "Saudi Riyal",
  "geobytescurrencycode": "SAR",
  "geobytestitle": "Saudi Arabia"
}
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Limitations:

16,384 requests per hour
No SSL (https) with the free plan
Can return the wrong location (I'm in Singapore, not Saudi Arabia)

GeoIPLookup.io

Try it: https://json.geoiplookup.io/api

$.getJSON('https://json.geoiplookup.io/api?callback=?', function(data) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
});
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Returns:

{
    "ip": "116.12.250.1",
    "isp": "SGPOST",
    "org": "Singapore Post Ltd",
    "hostname": "116.12.250.1",
    "longitude": "103.807",
    "latitude": "1.29209",
    "postal_code": "",
    "city": "Singapore",
    "country_code": "SG",
    "country_name": "Singapore",
    "continent_code": "AS",
    "region": "Central Singapore",
    "district": "",
    "timezone_name": "Asia\/Singapore",
    "connection_type": "",
    "asn": "AS3758 SingNet",
    "currency_code": "SGD",
    "currency_name": "Singapore Dollar",
    "success": true
}
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Limitations:

10,000 requests per hour
Free API only allows non-commercial use

geoPlugin

Try it: http://www.geoplugin.net/json.gp

$.getJSON('http://www.geoplugin.net/json.gp?jsoncallback=?', function(data) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
});
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Returns:

{
  "geoplugin_request": "116.12.250.1",
  "geoplugin_status": 200,
  "geoplugin_credit": "Some of the returned data includes GeoLite data created by MaxMind, available from <a href=\\'http://www.maxmind.com\\'>http://www.maxmind.com</a>.",
  "geoplugin_city": "Singapore",
  "geoplugin_region": "Singapore (general)",
  "geoplugin_areaCode": "0",
  "geoplugin_dmaCode": "0",
  "geoplugin_countryCode": "SG",
  "geoplugin_countryName": "Singapore",
  "geoplugin_continentCode": "AS",
  "geoplugin_latitude": "1.2931",
  "geoplugin_longitude": "103.855797",
  "geoplugin_regionCode": "00",
  "geoplugin_regionName": "Singapore (general)",
  "geoplugin_currencyCode": "SGD",
  "geoplugin_currencySymbol": "&#36;",
  "geoplugin_currencySymbol_UTF8": "$",
  "geoplugin_currencyConverter": 1.4239
}
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Limitations:

120 requests per minute
No SSL (https) with the free plan

Hacker Target

Try it: https://api.hackertarget.com/geoip/?q=

Returns:

IP Address: 116.12.250.1
Country: SG
State: N/A
City: Singapore
Latitude: 1.293100
Longitude: 103.855797
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Limitations:

50 requests per day
Doesn't support JSONP callbacks
Requires IP address parameter
Returns plain text

ipapi.co
Try it: https://ipapi.co/json/

$.getJSON('https://ipapi.co/json/', function(data) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
});
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Returns:

{
  "ip": "116.12.250.1",
  "city": "Singapore",
  "region": "Central Singapore Community Development Council",
  "country": "SG",
  "country_name": "Singapore",
  "postal": null,
  "latitude": 1.2855,
  "longitude": 103.8565,
  "timezone": "Asia/Singapore"
}
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Limitations:

1,000 requests per day
Requires SSL (https)

IP-API.com

Try it: http://ip-api.com/json

$.getJSON('http://ip-api.com/json?callback=?', function(data) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
});
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Returns:

{
  "as": "AS3758 SingNet",
  "city": "Singapore",
  "country": "Singapore",
  "countryCode": "SG",
  "isp": "SingNet Pte Ltd",
  "lat": 1.2931,
  "lon": 103.8558,
  "org": "Singapore Telecommunications",
  "query": "116.12.250.1",
  "region": "01",
  "regionName": "Central Singapore Community Development Council",
  "status": "success",
  "timezone": "Asia/Singapore",
  "zip": ""
}
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Limitations:

150 requests per minute
No SSL (https) with the free plan

Ipdata.co

Try it: https://api.ipdata.co

$.getJSON('https://api.ipdata.co', function(data) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
});
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Returns:

{
  "ip": "116.12.250.1",
  "city": "Singapore",
  "region": "Central Singapore Community Development Council",
  "region_code": "01",
  "country_name": "Singapore",
  "country_code": "SG",
  "continent_name": "Asia",
  "continent_code": "AS",
  "latitude": 1.2931,
  "longitude": 103.8558,
  "asn": "AS3758",
  "organisation": "SingNet",
  "postal": "",
  "calling_code": "65",
  "flag": "https://ipdata.co/flags/sg.png",
  "emoji_flag": "\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec",
  "emoji_unicode": "U+1F1F8 U+1F1EC",
  "is_eu": false,
  "languages": [
    {
      "name": "English",
      "native": "English"
    },
    {
      "name": "Malay",
      "native": "Bahasa Melayu"
    },
    {
      "name": "Tamil",
      "native": "\u0ba4\u0bae\u0bbf\u0bb4\u0bcd"
    },
    {
      "name": "Chinese",
      "native": "\u4e2d\u6587"
    }
  ],
  "currency": {
    "name": "Singapore Dollar",
    "code": "SGD",
    "symbol": "S$",
    "native": "$",
    "plural": "Singapore dollars"
  },
  "time_zone": {
    "name": "Asia/Singapore",
    "abbr": "+08",
    "offset": "+0800",
    "is_dst": false,
    "current_time": "2018-05-09T12:28:49.183674+08:00"
  },
  "threat": {
    "is_tor": false,
    "is_proxy": false,
    "is_anonymous": false,
    "is_known_attacker": false,
    "is_known_abuser": false,
    "is_threat": false,
    "is_bogon": false
  }
}
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Limitations:

1,500 requests per day
Requires an email address to get your API key
Requires SSL (https)

IP Find

Try it: https://ipfind.co/me?auth=

$.getJSON('https://ipfind.co/me?auth=<your_api_key>', function(data) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
});
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Returns:

{
  "ip_address": "116.12.250.1",
  "country": "Singapore",
  "country_code": "SG",
  "continent": "Asia",
  "continent_code": "AS",
  "city": "Singapore",
  "county": null,
  "region": "Central Singapore",
  "region_code": "01",
  "timezone": "Asia/Singapore",
  "owner": null,
  "longitude": 103.8565,
  "latitude": 1.2855,
  "currency": "SGD",
  "languages": [
    "cmn",
    "en-SG",
    "ms-SG",
    "ta-SG",
    "zh-SG"
  ]
}
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Limitations:

300 requests per day
Requires registration to get your API key

ipgeolocation

Try it: https://api.ipgeolocation.io/ipgeo?apiKey=

$.getJSON('https://api.ipgeolocation.io/ipgeo?apiKey=<your_api_key>', function(data) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
});
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Returns:

{
  "ip": "116.12.250.1",
  "continent_code": "AS",
  "continent_name": "Asia",
  "country_code2": "SG",
  "country_code3": "SGP",
  "country_name": "Singapore",
  "country_capital": "Singapore",
  "state_prov": "Central Singapore",
  "district": "",
  "city": "Singapore",
  "zipcode": "",
  "latitude": "1.29209",
  "longitude": "103.807",
  "is_eu": false,
  "calling_code": "+65",
  "country_tld": ".sg",
  "languages": "cmn,en-SG,ms-SG,ta-SG,zh-SG",
  "country_flag": "https://ipgeolocation.io/static/flags/sg_64.png",
  "isp": "SGPOST",
  "connection_type": "",
  "organization": "Singapore Post Ltd",
  "geoname_id": "1880252",
  "currency": {
    "name": "Dollar",
    "code": "SGD"
  },
  "time_zone": {
    "name": "Asia/Singapore",
    "offset": 8,
    "is_dst": false,
    "current_time": "2018-06-12 09:06:49.028+0800"
  }
}
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Limitations:

50,000 requests per month
Requires registration to get your API key

ipify

Try it: https://api.ipify.org/?format=json

$.getJSON('https://api.ipify.org?format=jsonp&callback=?', function(data) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
});
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Returns:

{
  "ip": "116.12.250.1"
}
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Limitations:

None

IPInfoDB

Try it: https://api.ipinfodb.com/v3/ip-city/?key=&format=json

$.getJSON('https://api.ipinfodb.com/v3/ip-city/?key=<your_api_key>&format=json&callback=?', function(data) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
});
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Returns:

{
  "statusCode": "OK",
  "statusMessage": "",
  "ipAddress": "116.12.250.1",
  "countryCode": "SG",
  "countryName": "Singapore",
  "regionName": "Singapore",
  "cityName": "Singapore",
  "zipCode": "048941",
  "latitude": "1.28967",
  "longitude": "103.85",
  "timeZone": "+08:00"
}
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Limitations:

Two requests per second
Requires registration to get your API key

ipinfo.io

Try it: https://ipinfo.io/json

$.getJSON('https://ipinfo.io/json', function(data) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
});
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Returns:

{
  "ip": "116.12.250.1",
  "hostname": "No Hostname",
  "city": "Singapore",
  "region": "Central Singapore Community Development Council",
  "country": "SG",
  "loc": "1.2931,103.8558",
  "org": "AS3758 SingNet"
}
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Limitations:

1,000 requests per day

Ipregistry

Try it: https://api.ipregistry.co/?key=

$.getJSON('https://api.ipregistry.co/?key=<your_api_key>', function(data) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
});
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Returns:

{
  "ip" : "116.12.250.1",
  "type" : "IPv4",
  "hostname" : null,
  "carrier" : {
    "name" : null,
    "mcc" : null,
    "mnc" : null
  },
  "connection" : {
    "asn" : 3758,
    "domain" : "singnet.com.sg",
    "organization" : "SingNet Pte Ltd",
    "type" : "isp"
  },
  "currency" : {
    "code" : "SGD",
    "name" : "Singapore Dollar",
    "plural" : "Singapore dollars",
    "symbol" : "SGD",
    "symbol_native" : "SGD",
    "format" : {
      "negative" : {
        "prefix" : "-SGD",
        "suffix" : ""
      },
      "positive" : {
        "prefix" : "SGD",
        "suffix" : ""
      }
    }
  },
  "location" : {
    "continent" : {
      "code" : "AS",
      "name" : "Asia"
    },
    "country" : {
      "area" : 692.0,
      "borders" : [ ],
      "calling_code" : "65",
      "capital" : "Singapore",
      "code" : "SG",
      "name" : "Singapore",
      "population" : 5638676,
      "population_density" : 8148.38,
      "flag" : {
        "emoji" : "🇸🇬",
        "emoji_unicode" : "U+1F1F8 U+1F1EC",
        "emojitwo" : "https://cdn.ipregistry.co/flags/emojitwo/sg.svg",
        "noto" : "https://cdn.ipregistry.co/flags/noto/sg.png",
        "twemoji" : "https://cdn.ipregistry.co/flags/twemoji/sg.svg",
        "wikimedia" : "https://cdn.ipregistry.co/flags/wikimedia/sg.svg"
      },
      "languages" : [ {
        "code" : "cmn",
        "name" : "cmn",
        "native" : "cmn"
      }, {
        "code" : "en",
        "name" : "English",
        "native" : "English"
      }, {
        "code" : "ms",
        "name" : "Malay",
        "native" : "Melayu"
      }, {
        "code" : "ta",
        "name" : "Tamil",
        "native" : "தமிழ்"
      }, {
        "code" : "zh",
        "name" : "Chinese",
        "native" : "中文"
      } ],
      "tld" : ".sg"
    },
    "region" : {
      "code" : null,
      "name" : "Singapore"
    },
    "city" : "Singapore",
    "postal" : "96534",
    "latitude" : 1.28967,
    "longitude" : 103.85007,
    "language" : {
      "code" : "cmn",
      "name" : "cmn",
      "native" : "cmn"
    },
    "in_eu" : false
  },
  "security" : {
    "is_bogon" : false,
    "is_cloud_provider" : false,
    "is_tor" : false,
    "is_tor_exit" : false,
    "is_proxy" : false,
    "is_anonymous" : false,
    "is_abuser" : false,
    "is_attacker" : false,
    "is_threat" : false
  },
  "time_zone" : {
    "id" : "Asia/Singapore",
    "abbreviation" : "SGT",
    "current_time" : "2019-09-29T23:13:32+08:00",
    "name" : "Singapore Standard Time",
    "offset" : 28800,
    "in_daylight_saving" : false
  }
}
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Limitations:

Free plan includes 100,000 requests
Requires registration to get your API key

ipstack (formerly freegeoip.net)

Try it: http://api.ipstack.com/?access_key=

$.getJSON('http://api.ipstack.com/<ip_address>?access_key=<your_api_key>', function(data) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
});
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Returns:

{
    "ip": "116.12.250.1",
    "type": "ipv4",
    "continent_code": "AS",
    "continent_name": "Asia",
    "country_code": "SG",
    "country_name": "Singapore",
    "region_code": "01",
    "region_name": "Central Singapore Community Development Council",
    "city": "Singapore",
    "zip": null,
    "latitude": 1.2931,
    "longitude": 103.8558,
    "location": {
        "geoname_id": 1880252,
        "capital": "Singapore",
        "languages": [{
            "code": "en",
            "name": "English",
            "native": "English"
        },
        {
            "code": "ms",
            "name": "Malay",
            "native": "Bahasa Melayu"
        },
        {
            "code": "ta",
            "name": "Tamil",
            "native": "\u0ba4\u0bae\u0bbf\u0bb4\u0bcd"
        },
        {
            "code": "zh",
            "name": "Chinese",
            "native": "\u4e2d\u6587"
        }],
        "country_flag": "http:\/\/assets.ipstack.com\/flags\/sg.svg",
        "country_flag_emoji": "\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec",
        "country_flag_emoji_unicode": "U+1F1F8 U+1F1EC",
        "calling_code": "65",
        "is_eu": false
    }
}
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Limitations:

10,000 requests per month
Requires IP address parameter
Requires registration to get your API key
No SSL (https) with the free plan

jsonip.com

Try it: https://jsonip.com

$.getJSON('https://jsonip.com/?callback=?', function(data) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
});
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Returns:

{
  "ip": "116.12.250.1",
  "about": "https://jsonip.com/about",
  "Pro!": "http://getjsonip.com",
  "Get Notifications": "https://jsonip.com/notify"
}
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Limitations:

The response includes upsell

JSON Test

Try it: http://ip.jsontest.com/

$.getJSON('http://ip.jsontest.com/?callback=?', function(data) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
});
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Returns:

{
  "ip": "116.12.250.1"
}
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Limitations:

No SSL (https)
Goes down a lot (over quota), so I wouldn't use it for production
Returns IPv6 address if you have one, which may not be what you want

Nekudo

Try it: https://geoip.nekudo.com/api

$.getJSON('https://geoip.nekudo.com/api', function(data) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
});
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Returns:

{
  "city": "Singapore",
  "country": {
    "name": "Singapore",
    "code": "SG"
  },
  "location": {
    "accuracy_radius": 50,
    "latitude": 1.2855,
    "longitude": 103.8565,
    "time_zone": "Asia/Singapore"
  },
  "ip": "116.12.250.1"
}
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Limitations:

Blocked by ad blockers using the EasyPrivacy list
Keep in mind that since these are all free services, your mileage may vary in terms of exceeding quota and uptime, and who knows when/if they will be taken offline down the road (exhibit A: Telize). Most of these services also offer a paid tier in case you want more features like SSL support.

Also, as skobaljic noted in the comments below, the request quotas are mostly academic since this is happening client-side and most end users will never exceed the quota.

UPDATES

2/1/2016: Removed Telize (no longer offers free plan)
4/18/2016: Removed freegeoip.net (out of service)
4/26/2016: Added DB-IP
4/26/2016: Added Hacker Target
7/6/2016: Reinstated freegeoip.net
7/6/2016: Removed ip-json.rhcloud.com (dead link)
12/21/2016: Removed Hacker Target (out of service)
2/10/2017: Added Nekudo
4/20/2017: Added ipapi.co (thanks Ahmad Awais)
4/24/2017: Reinstated Hacker Target
4/24/2017: Removed Snoopi.io (out of service)
7/16/2017: Added IP Find (thanks JordanC)
7/16/2017: Updated limitation for free plans that don't support SSL
9/25/2017: Added Stupid Web Tools (thanks Cœur)
3/16/2018: Added Ipdata.co (thanks Jonathan)
4/14/2018: Renamed freegeoip.net to ipstack (thanks MA-Maddin)
4/16/2018: Added GeoIPLookup.io (thanks Rob Waa)
6/11/2018: Added ipgeolocation (thanks Ejaz Ahmed)
7/31/2019: Added Ipregistry (thanks Laurent)
8/16/2019: Added SmartIP.io (thanks kevinj)
8/22/2019: Removed Stupid Web Tools (out of service)
12/8/2019: Changed Smart IP monthly rate limit
12/10/2019: Added Cloudflare
1/9/2020: Removed SmartIP.io (out of service)

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adithyapaib •

how to make an api like these sites ?

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deaddoctor • • Edited

just look for X-Forwarded-For in your request header.
if you're using express.js something like this should work:

app.get('/get/ip', function (req, res) {
    const ipAddress =  req.headers['x-forwarded-for']?.split(',').shift() || req.socket?.remoteAddress
    res.send(ipAddress);
})
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adithyapaib •

So if I make a http request to the end I will get the public IP address?

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deaddoctor •

yes, it's show you the IP address of a client connecting to your web server (which in your case is Express.js)
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

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adithyapaib •

Will try it out
Thank you so much 🥰❤️

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adithyapaib • • Edited

get-ip-eight.vercel.app/ working thanks
anyway to get ip location without third party api

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Jenuel Oras Ganawed •

Hi! thank you for showing interest in this post. The idea here is to fetch data from a backend server using a link provided by the backend.. If you would like to create something like this you can start learning how Rest Api works..

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adithyapaib •

Hey
I actually made several rest API's (nodejs) but I could find proper source or information to make an API to get IP address without 3rd part api's. Is there any proper resource to do it? Or can you write a post on that would love to read it .
Thank you

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Jenuel Oras Ganawed •

I think for js you have to use libraries to do it... If you have tried python I think its easier in python language.... but anyway, Ill try to search about it and make a post about it also :)

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adithyapaib •

Thanks man really appreciate it

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