Question

Is there any possibility to find the user’s location in django. I mean is there any way to get the latitude and longitude and then the location.

Answer 1

I don’t Believe Django can do that directly, what you can do with Django is request the IP of the user, and the using a free webservice from outside, request the latitude and longitude and then the location

for example… easy python code:

IP_URL = "http://api.hostip.info/?ip="
def get_coords(ip):
    url = IP_URL + ip
    respond = None
    try:
        respond = urlib2.urlopen(url).read()
    execept URLError:
        return

    if respond:
        #Parse de returned XML Here, you can use MiniDom

By the way api.hostip.info work well if the user is in the USA. Outside not so well… but you get the idea.