Python Script to Get the Geo Location of an IP Address

Time for a script again, this one will geolocate an IP address based on input from the user. For this script, we will be using a bunch of Python modules to accomplish this. First we make a check to see that the user puts in enough arguments, and if not, they ‘usage’ variable will be printed on how to use it.

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We are using the geody web service to find geolocate the IP.

import re
import sys
import urllib2
import BeautifulSoup

usage = "Run the script: ./geolocate.py IPAddress"

if len(sys.argv)!=2:
    print(usage)
    sys.exit(0)

if len(sys.argv) > 1:
    ipaddr = sys.argv[1]

geody = "http://www.geody.com/geoip.php?ip=" + ipaddr
html_page = urllib2.urlopen(geody).read()
soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(html_page)

# Filter paragraph containing geolocation info.
paragraph = soup('p')[3]

# Remove html tags using regex.
geo_txt = re.sub(r'<.*?>', '', str(paragraph))
print geo_txt[32:].strip()

This script is copied from this post on snipplr.com