Extracting geolocation information

In this section, we review how to extract geolocation information from an IP address or domain.

Introduction to geolocation

One way to obtain geolocation from an ip address or domain is using a service that provides this kind of information. Among the services that provide this information, we can highlight hackertarget.com (https://hackertarget.com/geoip-ip-location-lookup/).

With hackertarget.com, we can get a geolocation from an ip address:

This service also provides a REST API for obtaining a geolocation from an ip address: https://api.hackertarget.com/geoip/?q=8.8.8.8.

Another service is api.hostip.info, which provides a query by ip address:

In the next script, we are using this service...