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I am looking for a good geolocation api to use from bash. I want this call to return at the very minimum the name of the city I am in, and the state.

I imagine that there must be some site I can curl, or some scripting language that has a package that works. The machine does not have a GPS, but it does use wireless internet most of the time if that is needed.

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I was looking at this problem again recently and found whereami, a geolocation bash script for Mac OS X Snow Leopard, which takes advantage of Core Location. This will tend to be much more precise than IP geolocation, and it works well in my tests.

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Since whereami is not (officially) available for Swift 2 and Swift 3, I digged a bit deeper and found locateme what does its job on OSX 10.12.4:

Its asks for permission the first time, and then it works without any additional interaction. Also, the format parameter is nice:

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geolocate-cli is still in alpha but should do the job.

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Scraping the first Google hit result for "geoip" seems to work easily enough.

$ curl http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_my_ip |
> awk '/<table>/{RS=RS RS}/tblProduct1/'

I haven't checked their EULA to see if using their service this way is okay, but they do also provide GeoIP libraries for C, Perl, Python, etc. with a "lite" database that you can distribute (with conditions).

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If your platform is a *nixlike that supports network-manager, you can use this script: curl "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/browserlocation/json?browser=firefox&key=AIzaSyDBgL8fm9bD8RLShATOLI1xKmFcZ4ieMkM&sensor=true" --data-urlencode "`nmcli -f SSID,BSSID,SIGNAL dev wifi list |perl -ne "if(s/^(.+?)\s+(..:..:..:..:..:..)\s+(.+?)\s*$/&wifi=mac:\2|ssid:\1|ss:\3/g){print;}"`" Check out How to create a script to query Google Browserlocation for more details.

Notice that there's some limit to this service. It was working fine, at first, but now I get "status" : "OVER_QUERY_LIMIT". I don't know what the limit is because I can only seem to find geocoding references, but if anyone knows, please tell me!

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Wireless internet meaning WiFi, CDMA2k, UMTS, EDGE... ? And your carrier? Not that it matters.

Really. I'd start investing in a GPS dongle.