IP address and Country

[harrison at all-auctions.com]

Hi Alex,

Sorry, it’s been a really busy day here.
I can’t get back to this problem until tomorrow.

Don’t drag out your C code just yet,
I have some ideas to try.

Thanks,

Rick

> On Nov 15, 2022, at 1:35 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Rick,
> 
> I had missed the fact that you said you already had the database - that makes it a much easier problem :-)
> 
> While I don't have any Livecode code for this, I do have some C code for a (probably) very similar problem.
> 
> If you can describe the format of your database, and the query you want to make, I'll see if what I have is a good starting place, and then convert the C code if practical.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alex.
> 
> On 15/11/2022 17:12, harrison--- via use-livecode wrote:
>> Hi Martin,
>> 
>> Thanks for the information, but what I really want is a LiveCode solution
>> that doesn’t depend on third parties.
>> 
>> I have the database. I was asking if other people here
>> had come up with a fast LiveCode solution.
>> 
>> If all else fails, I will look into one of the third party suggestions,
>> but third parties can change their code or suddenly disappear
>> off of the internet.  I don’t want my website breaking all the time
>> due to such dependencies.
>> 
>> Thanks again,
>> 
>> Rick
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 14, 2022, at 11:22 PM, Martin Koob <mkoob at rogers.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> You can use a website with a api that you send a HTTP request with an IP address parameter to and which returns the country info.
>>> 
>>> Here is an example I found of one site.
>>> 
>>> https://ipapi.co/api/#introduction <https://ipapi.co/api/#introduction>
>>> 
>>> HTTP Request
>>> 
>>> GET https://ipapi.co/{ip}/{format}/
>>> 
>>> URL Parameters
>>> 
>>> Parameter	Description
>>> ip			An IP address for which you want to retrieve the location
>>> format		Data format of response, possible values are json, jsonp, xml, csv, yaml
>>> 
>>> E.g.
>>> 
>>> 	https://ipapi.co/8.8.8.8/json/
>>> 
>>> It is free for up to 30K requests per month,  after that there is a fee.
>>> 
>>> https://ipapi.co/#pricing <https://ipapi.co/#pricing>
>>> 
>>> Martin Koob
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