Get Country From Ip in Python

Today, I'm going to show you how to get the Country's name from the IP address using Python.

In this tutorial, we'll use the ipinfo API and the pycountry library.

Get the country's name from IP

We'll write a simple function that gets the country from IP.

import requests
import json


def get(ip):
    endpoint = f'https://ipinfo.io/{ip}/json'
    response = requests.get(endpoint, verify = True)

    if response.status_code != 200:
        return 'Status:', response.status_code, 'Problem with the request. Exiting.'
        exit()

    data = response.json()

    return data['country']

How to use it?

my_country = get("196.74.34.70")

print(my_country)

Output

MA

As you can see, we have got MA which is the code of Morocco.

Next, we'll learn how to print the full name of the country.

Print the full name of the country

To print the full name, we need to use the pycountry library.

Install pycountry via pip:

pip install pycountry

Print the full name:

import pycountry

my_country = get("196.74.34.70")

c = pycountry.countries.get(alpha_2=my_country)

print(c.name)

Output

Morocco

Print the official name:

print(c.official_name)

Output

Kingdom of Morocco