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 and the requests module to obtain a json ...

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