How To Access Geo Ip Look Up With Javascript

I'd like ot know how I can consume the output of this service with JavaScript. It's not valid JSON http://geoiplookup.wikimedia.org/ EDIT Here is how I was hoping to retrieve th

Solution 1:

I see it's response contains a string which can be easily processed with simple JS. Try this.

var geoStr = 'Geo = {"city":"Woodbury","country":"US","lat":"39.824001","lon":"-75.131798","IP":"98.110.51.114","netmask":"24"};';

var geoJSON = geoStr.split('=')[1];

geoJSON = $.parseJSON(geoJSON.substring(0, geoJSON.length -1));

console.log(geoJSON);

Working Demo

Solution 2:

jQuery and AJAX will do the trick. Like ShankarSangoli said, this will work cross-domain. Here is an working example:

var query = "select * from html where url='http://geoiplookup.wikimedia.org'"var encodedQuery = encodeURIComponent(query.toLowerCase()),
            url = 'http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=' + encodedQuery + '&format=json&diagnostics=true&callback=?';
        $.ajax({
            dataType: "json",
            url: url,
            async: false,
            success: function (data) {

                var w = data.query.results.body.p;
                var geoJSON = w.split('=')[1];
                geoJSON = $.parseJSON(geoJSON);

                var latitude = geoJSON.lat;
                var longitude = geoJSON.lon;


                console.log('Geo IP: ('+ latitude + ' - ' + longitude +')');

            }
        });

You can also try these links if you are working on a HTML5 Geolocation Fallback method: http://www.geoplugin.net/json.gphttp://freegeoip.net/json/