The following script can be run from the command line to get the Geo location for any ip:

Format:

ipinfo [ipaddress] json false[/code]


#!/bin/sh

#

###

### For assistance, please visit forum.ipinfodb.com

#

# Created by Eric Gamache on 2009-05-26

# Version 1.0 by Eric Gamache -- 2009-06-04

# Version 1.1 updated by Marc-Andre Caron -- 2009-06-08 .. Added timezone

# Version 1.2 updated by Eric Gamache -- 2009-06-08 .. fix minors bugs.

# Version 1.3 updated by Marc-Andre Caron -- 2010-02-11 .. new timezone support, reduced complexity of the script.

#

# This script is provided "as is", with absolutely no warranty expressed or

# implied. Any use is at your own risk. Permission to use or copy this

# script for any purpose is hereby granted without fee. Permission to

# modify the code and to distribute modified code is granted, provided

# the above notices are retained, and a notice that the code was modified

# is included with the above copyright notice.

#

###############################################

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URL="http://api.ipinfodb.com/v2/ip_query.php?key=[enteryourkey]&ip="

#

WGET_OPTION="=-b -q --wait=3 --waitretry=2 --random-wait --limit-rate=9578 "

WGET_AGENT="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"

#

ERROR=0

#

###############################################

if [ "$1" = "" ]; then

  ERROR=1

else

  IP=$1

  HTTP_LINK_XML="$URL""$IP""&output=xml&timezone="

  HTTP_LINK_JSON="$URL""$IP""&output=json&timezone="

fi

##############

if [ "$2" != "" ]; then

  if [ "$2" != "json" ] && [ "$2" != "xml" ] ; then

    ERROR=1

  fi

  TYPE="$2"

else

  ERROR=1

fi

##############

if [ "$3" != "" ]; then

  if [ "$3" != "true" ] && [ "$3" != "false" ] ; then

    ERROR=1

  fi

  TIMEZONE="$3"

else

  ERROR=1

fi

###############################################


###############################################

if [ "$ERROR" != "0" ]; then

  echo " "

  echo " usage : $0 IP TYPE TIMEZONE"

  echo " Where IP is the IP to check"

  echo " TYPE is the output type (xml|json)"

  echo " TIMEZONE is to show timezone data or not (false|true)"

  echo " Big thanks to the team of IPInfoDB (http://ipinfodb.com)"

  exit

fi

###############################################

#

TST_wget=`wget > /dev/null 2>&1`

#

ErrorLevel=$?

#

if [ "$ErrorLevel" != 1 ] ; then

  echo " ----"

  echo " wget not found; please install it for proper operation."

  echo " ----"

  exit

fi

###############################################

###############################################

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if [ "$TYPE" = "json" ]; then

  JSON_Info=`wget -qO- --user-agent="$WGET_AGENT" $HTTP_LINK_JSON"$TIMEZONE" 2>&1`

  echo "$JSON_Info"

else

  XML_Info=`wget -qO- --user-agent="$WGET_AGENT" $HTTP_LINK_XML"$TIMEZONE" 2>&1`

  echo "$XML_Info"

fi[/code]