Location detecting techniques for IP addresses

Question

What are the location detecting techniques for IP addresses?
I know to look at the
$_SERVER[\'HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE\'] (not accurate but mostly useful to

Answer 1

You can map an IP address to its location (city, country, postal code), timezone etc. with either a database or an API (hosted database).

Here's an example of using an API

curl https://ipapi.co/city/ 
> Mountain View

curl https://ipapi.co/country/
> US

curl https://ipapi.co/timezone/
> America/Los_Angeles 

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