How to detect the country and city of a user accessing your site?
python, web-applications
Solution
Grab and gunzip http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz, install the GeoIP-Python package (python-geoip package if you're in Debian or Ubuntu, otherwise install http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/python/GeoIP-Python-1.2.4.tar.gz), and do:
import GeoIP
gi = GeoIP.open("GeoLiteCity.dat", GeoIP.GEOIP_INDEX_CACHE | GeoIP.GEOIP_CHECK_CACHE)
print gi.record_by_name("74.125.67.100") # a www.google.com IP
`{'city': 'Mountain View', 'region_name': 'California', 'region': 'CA', 'area_code': 650, 'time_zone': 'America/Los_Angeles', 'longitude': -122.05740356445312, 'country_code3': 'USA', 'latitude': 37.419200897216797, 'postal_code': '94043', 'dma_code': 807, 'country_code': 'US', 'country_name': 'United States'}`
The database is free (http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/LICENSE.txt). They do sell it, too; I think that just gets you more frequent updates.
Problem
How can you detect the country of origin of the users accessing your site? I'm using Google Analytics on my site and can see that I have users coming from different regions of the world. But within my application I would like to provide some additional customization based on the country and perhaps the city. Is it possible to detect this infomation from the browser? This is a Python web application.