How Can We Track an IP’s Location Using APIs & C++? 🤔

[red cargo]

I've been exploring IP tracking and how websites determine a user's location using their IP address. Some key questions that came to my mind:

• How does IP Geolocation work, and what data can we extract from an IP?
• How do websites track a user's location using an IP address?
• What are the real-world applications of IP tracking in cybersecurity & networking?
• How can cURL be used to fetch geolocation data from APIs?
• How does nlohmann/json help parse and handle JSON responses?
• How do APIs like ipify & ipinfo play a role in fetching and analyzing IP data?

I built an IP Geolocator tool to explore these concepts in action! If you're also curious about how this works, you can check it out here:

https://github.com/NeoOverride/IP-Geolocator

hile going through the repo, you'll also learn how cURL, nlohmann/json, and these APIs work together for geolocation tracking. Feel free to tweak or improve it! 🚀

What are your thoughts on IP tracking? Have you worked with similar APIs before? Let’s discuss! 💡

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[plush sonnet]

Using IP for this is basically useless

If you try to get my location based on my ID you'd be off by a good 200 kms