requests-lat-long-timezone-locale-ip-api

🌍 GeoLocation API

A simple API to retrieve timezone, locale, and geolocation data from an IP address. Perfect for enriching your application with accurate location-based accept-language and timezone details.

📦 Installation

Install the package using pip:

pip install requests-lat-long-timezone-locale-ip-api

🚀 Usage

Here's how to get started with the GeoLocation class:

from geolocation import GeoLocation

# Initialize the GeoLocation class with a proxy (if needed)
geo = GeoLocation(proxy="http://user:pass@host:port")

# Fetch geolocation data
geolocation_data = geo.get_geolocation()

# Print the geolocation data
print(geolocation_data)

# Returns the following dictionary:
{
    "lat": 48.8566,
    "lon": 2.3522,
    "timezone": "Europe/Paris",
    "locale": "fr-FR",
    "ip": "82.117.11.11"
}

🛠️ Features

• Fetch public IP address
• Retrieve latitude, longitude, timezone, and locale
• Cache results using Redis for faster subsequent lookups

📋 Requirements

To use this package, you'll need:

• Python 3.6+
• requests library
• redis library
• python-dotenv library

Install the necessary dependencies with:

pip install requests redis python-dotenv

🔧 Configuration

Set up your Redis and proxy configurations in a .env file:

REDIS_HOST=localhost
REDIS_PORT=6379
REDIS_DB=0
REDIS_PASSWORD=yourpassword

🌟 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you have suggestions or improvements, feel free to:

• Open an issue to discuss the changes.
• Submit a pull request with your enhancements.

👤 Author

dormic97 - GitHub Profile

📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Happy coding! 🎉

This version includes improved formatting, readability, and a clear flow for anyone using the API.