Merge pull request #17 from smcveigh941/master

Issue #13 : Added Python code snippet for geo locating an IP address

Python/geo_locate_ip.py

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+# Useful python code snippet for quickly geolocating an IP address
+
+import re
+import sys
+import urllib2
+import BeautifulSoup
+
+usage = "Run the script: ./geolocate.py <ip address>"
+
+if len(sys.argv)!=2:
+    print(usage)
+    sys.exit(0)
+
+if len(sys.argv) > 1:
+    ipaddr = sys.argv[1]
+
+geody = "http://www.geody.com/geoip.php?ip=" + ipaddr
+html_page = urllib2.urlopen(geody).read()
+soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(html_page)
+
+# Filter paragraph containing geolocation info.
+paragraph = soup('p')[3]
+
+# Remove html tags using regex.
+geo_txt = re.sub(r'<.*?>', '', str(paragraph))
+print geo_txt[32:].strip()