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            Find the geolocation of an IP address 
            from command-line


After a long search on the Internet - my wish seams to be that of 
many - I finally found, among many others, GeoIPLookup.io and its 
corresponding API.

To use the API we need to install CURL, the command-line downloader
and JQ, a command-line tool to process the JSON data from the API.

For Ubuntu/Debian:
   $ sudo apt update
   $ sudo apt install curl jq

Show geolocation data for your own public IP in json format:
   $ curl https://json.geoiplookup.io
   {
       "ip": "88.xx.xx.xx",
       "isp": "HIGHWAY194",
       "org": "High Speed Internet Customers",
       "hostname": "88-xx-xx-xx.adsl.highway.telekom.at",
       "latitude": 48.2235,
       "longitude": 16.3987,
       "postal_code": "1020",
       "city": "Vienna (Leopoldstadt)",
       "country_code": "AT",
       "country_name": "Austria",
       "continent_code": "EU",
       "continent_name": "Europe",
       "region": "Vienna",
       "district": "Vienna",
       "timezone_name": "Europe\/Vienna",
       "connection_type": "Cable\/DSL",
       "asn_number": 8447,
       "asn_org": "A1 Telekom Austria AG",
       "asn": "AS8447 - A1 Telekom Austria AG",
       "currency_code": "EUR",
       "currency_name": "Euro",
       "success": true,
       "premium": false
   }

For output only the IP and country use JQ:
   $ curl https://json.geoiplookup.io | jq '.ip, .country_name'
     % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                    Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
   100   720    0   720    0     0   5070      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  5070
   "88.xx.xx.xx"
   "Austria"

To get rid of the progress info of CURL use '-s' option and to eliminate
the quotes of JQ data use '-r' option:
   $ curl -s  https://json.geoiplookup.io | jq -r '.ip, .country_name'
   88.xx.xx.xx
   Austria

To check a foreign IP:
   $ curl -s  https://json.geoiplookup.io/8.8.8.8 | jq -r '.country_name'
   United States


For more information take a look at:
   -> https://geoiplookup.io/api


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