Get IP address location from windows application

Question

I have seen many questions and answer on stackoverflow regarding how to fetch geolocation of an IP address in asp.net but..

How can I fetch the IP address location in winforms ?

I am working on the C# winform application and I need to show user ,its ip address and Its location. I am able to show user's Local,External IP address but I could not find any way to show Location.

Any body knows if I can do this with any WebRequest or any other solution ?

Edit: I am able to accomplish the task by following method.

Send IP address to a site which shows location from the IP address.(e.g. www.whatismyipaddress.com)
fetching its source code.
parsing its code and use string operations to get the location.

But I know It is not good approach as if website is down or moved or any change in the source code will make my code useless.

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 08 '11 at 06:57

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You can use IP address geolocation database

answered Apr 08 '11 at 06:57

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Depends how much info you need. THe cost is not that high, though - well worth paying. – TomTom Apr 11 '11 at 07:42
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Yes IPInfoDB.com offers free services and they have just introduced their new Lite Version database, you will need to request for API key before you can download anything from there. – Apr 11 '11 at 07:45
day b4 yesterday there were 3 answers for the same question and today u all can see only one answer ..do we have new feature on stackoverflow to remove answers ??? Im confused :O – Sangram Nandkhile Apr 12 '11 at 08:17

Ionică Bizău · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-28T18:16:27.150

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IpInfo is nice service for IP related things. They also have a nice API.

In the code below, I will make a web request to this service and it will return the IP info.

This will return your IP info:

public static string GetLocation(string ip)
{
    var res = "";
    WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("http://ipinfo.io/" + ip);
    using (WebResponse response = request.GetResponse())
    using (StreamReader stream = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
    {
        string line;
        while ((line = stream.ReadLine()) != null)
        {
            res += line;
        }
    }
    return res;
}

An example using this is:

Console.WriteLine (GetLocation("8.8.8.8"));

This will output:

{ "ip": "8.8.8.8", "hostname": "No Hostname", "city": "Mountain View", "region": "California", "country": "US", "loc": "37.3860,-122.0838", "org": "AS15169 Google Inc.", "postal": "94035"}

edited Feb 28 '15 at 18:16

answered Jul 26 '12 at 18:10

Ionică Bizău

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Hey,Thanks a lot. Nice method. – Sangram Nandkhile Jul 27 '12 at 12:46
You are welcome. Thank you! I worked for it yesterday. :D Hope that you mark it (again) if I helped you. – Ionică Bizău Jul 27 '12 at 13:06
actually i wanted something which will work every time. In case if maxmind is down tmrw,i wanted this to work. But i am accepting this as an answer because it's something which is exactly i needed. – Sangram Nandkhile Jul 27 '12 at 14:42
Thank you. I thought at this... but I think that you understood the idea of it. :) – Ionică Bizău Jul 27 '12 at 14:45
@Ionică :am getting a web exception on running this code. – jincy abraham Feb 28 '15 at 03:35
@jincyabraham Yeah, probably that was outdated. I updated it with code that works. – Ionică Bizău Feb 28 '15 at 18:16
@ Ionică : thanks :) i got this from another site. Web Request to this same site :)thanks for updating – jincy abraham Mar 01 '15 at 16:26
how to get these all info in Label, like i want to store hostname in lbl_hostname and city in lblcity and all the same? – user3441151 Jul 07 '15 at 07:44
@user3441151 You have to [parse the response string as JSON](http://stackoverflow.com/q/6620165/1420197) and get the needed fields. Also, a hacky way would be to search for `"hostname"` in the string and take the value that comes after the `: "` snippet. – Ionică Bizău Jul 07 '15 at 11:08

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