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How does a website detect a country?
The typical way to detect a country of origin is to compare the IP address of the visitor against a geo-ip database to determine the country. To keep your site performing well, you usually have a local data file containing the IP ranges of each country and compare against that file.
How do I get a user country?
You can use your IP address to get your ‘country’, ‘city’, ‘isp’ etc… Just use one of the web-services that provide you with a simple api like http://ip-api.com which provide you a JSON service at http://ip-api.com/json. Simple send a Ajax (or Xhr) request and then parse the JSON to get whatever data you need.
What country is IP address from?
United States of America
Country Information
| Country: | United States of America |
|---|---|
| Capital: | Washington |
| Continent: | North America |
| Population: | 310,232,863 |
| Area: | 9,629,091 km² |
How to detect which country a user is in?
A locale is a user’s region setting on their device, and you can read it without asking for permission. For example, if the locale is en-US it means they speak English and are in the US; if it’s fr-CA it means they speak French are in Canada.
How can I find out a user’s country of origin?
And, of course, the user could belong to an Arabic-speaking minority, or be a Spanish-speaking visitor. In order to determine the user’s country by the request’s IP address, we’ll use the MaxMind PHP API and the MaxMind geolocation database.
Which is the best way to detect a user’s locale?
In this article, we’ll go through three different ways of detecting a user’s locale: through the browser’s navigator.language s (on the client) object, through the Accept-Language HTTP header (on the server), and through geolocation using the user’s IP address (on the server).
How can I find out where a user is on my phone?
Fortunately there’s a coarse-grained way you can figure out a user’s locate without asking for location permission: Locale. A locale is a user’s region setting on their device, and you can read it without asking for permission.