Get user location by IP address

Question

I have an ASP.NET website written in C#.

On this site I need to automatically show a start page based on the user\'s location.

Can I get name of user\'s city

Answer 1

Use http://ipinfo.io , You need to pay them if you make more than 1000 requests per day.

The code below requires the Json.NET package.

public static string GetUserCountryByIp(string ip)
{
    IpInfo ipInfo = new IpInfo();
    try
    {
        string info = new WebClient().DownloadString("http://ipinfo.io/" + ip);
        ipInfo = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(info);
        RegionInfo myRI1 = new RegionInfo(ipInfo.Country);
        ipInfo.Country = myRI1.EnglishName;
    }
    catch (Exception)
    {
        ipInfo.Country = null;
    }
    
    return ipInfo.Country;
}

And the IpInfo Class I used:

public class IpInfo
{
    [JsonProperty("ip")]
    public string Ip { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("hostname")]
    public string Hostname { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("city")]
    public string City { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("region")]
    public string Region { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("country")]
    public string Country { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("loc")]
    public string Loc { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("org")]
    public string Org { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("postal")]
    public string Postal { get; set; }
}