Displaying a local weather forecast on your website is an excellent way to personalize user experience. By using IPLocate, you can quickly detect a user's location based on their IP address and retrieve accurate weather data through the OpenWeatherMap API. Here's how you can easily set this up.

First, sign up for both of these free services to get your API keys:

• Sign up for IPLocate
• Sign up for OpenWeatherMap

Using Javascript

async function getLocalWeather(iplocate_api_key, openweathermap_api_key) {
  // Get location from IP address
  const locResponse = await fetch(`https://iplocate.io/api/lookup/?apikey=${iplocate_api_key}`);
  const locData = await locResponse.json();
  const { latitude, longitude, city } = locData;

  // Get weather for the location
  const weatherResponse = await fetch(
    `https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=${latitude}&lon=${longitude}&units=metric&appid=${openweathermap_api_key}`
  );
  const weatherData = await weatherResponse.json();

  console.log(`The current temperature in ${city} is ${weatherData.main.temp}°C.`);

  // Use the weather data here.
  return weatherData;
}

// --- How to use it: ---
// const iplocateKey = 'YOUR_IPLOCATE_API_KEY';
// const openWeatherKey = 'YOUR_OPENWEATHERMAP_API_KEY';
// getLocalWeather(iplocateKey, openWeatherKey).then(weather => {
//   if (weather) {
//     console.log("Weather data:", weather);
//     // Update your UI here
//   }
// });

Using PHP

<?php

function getLocalWeather(string $iplocate_api_key, string $openweathermap_api_key): ?array {
    // Get location from IP address
    $locJson = file_get_contents("https://iplocate.io/api/lookup/?apikey={$iplocate_api_key}");
    $locData = json_decode($locJson, true);

    $latitude = $locData['latitude'];
    $longitude = $locData['longitude'];
    $city = $locData['city'] ?? 'your location';

    // Get weather for the location
    $weatherUrl = "https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat={$latitude}&lon={$longitude}&units=metric&appid={$openweathermap_api_key}";
    $weatherJson = file_get_contents($weatherUrl);
    $weatherData = json_decode($weatherJson, true);

    echo "The current temperature in {$city} is " . $weatherData['main']['temp'] . "°C.\\n";

    // Use the weather data here.
    return $weatherData;
}

// --- How to use it: ---
// $iplocateKey = 'YOUR_IPLOCATE_API_KEY';
// $openWeatherKey = 'YOUR_OPENWEATHERMAP_API_KEY';
// $weather = getLocalWeather($iplocateKey, $openWeatherKey);
// if ($weather) {
//     // Use $weather array here
// }

?>

Using Python

import requests

def get_local_weather(iplocate_api_key: str, openweathermap_api_key: str) -> dict | None:
    """Fetches local weather based on IP address."""
    # Get location from IP address
    loc_response = requests.get(f"https://iplocate.io/api/lookup/?apikey={iplocate_api_key}")
    loc_data = loc_response.json()

    latitude = loc_data.get('latitude')
    longitude = loc_data.get('longitude')
    city = loc_data.get('city', 'your location')

    # Get weather for the location
    weather_response = requests.get(
        f"https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather",
        params={
            "lat": latitude,
            "lon": longitude,
            "units": "metric",
            "appid": openweathermap_api_key
        }
    )
    weather_data = weather_response.json()

    temp = weather_data.get('main', {}).get('temp')
    if temp is not None:
        print(f"The current temperature in {city} is {temp}°C.")

    # Use the weather data here
    return weather_data

# --- How to use it: ---
# IPLOCATE_KEY = 'YOUR_IPLOCATE_API_KEY'
# OPENWEATHERMAP_KEY = 'YOUR_OPENWEATHERMAP_API_KEY'
# weather = get_local_weather(IPLOCATE_KEY, OPENWEATHERMAP_KEY)
# if weather:
#     # Use weather dict here
#     pass

Using Ruby

require 'net/http'
require 'json'
require 'uri'

def get_local_weather(iplocate_api_key, openweathermap_api_key)
  # Get location from IP address
  iplocate_uri = URI("https://iplocate.io/api/lookup/?apikey=#{iplocate_api_key}")
  loc_response = Net::HTTP.get(iplocate_uri)
  loc_data = JSON.parse(loc_response)

  latitude = loc_data['latitude']
  longitude = loc_data['longitude']
  city = loc_data['city'] || 'your location'

  # Get weather for the location
  weather_uri = URI('https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather')
  params = { lat: latitude, lon: longitude, units: 'metric', appid: openweathermap_api_key }
  weather_uri.query = URI.encode_www_form(params)

  weather_response = Net::HTTP.get(weather_uri)
  weather_data = JSON.parse(weather_response)

  temp = weather_data.dig('main', 'temp')
  if temp
      puts "The current temperature in #{city} is #{temp}°C."
  end

  # Use the weather data here
  return weather_data
end

# --- How to use it: ---
# iplocate_key = 'YOUR_IPLOCATE_API_KEY'
# openweathermap_key = 'YOUR_OPENWEATHERMAP_API_KEY'
# weather = get_local_weather(iplocate_key, openweathermap_key)
# if weather
#   # Use weather hash here
# end

By combining IPLocate with OpenWeatherMap, you can offer visitors personalized weather updates quickly and reliably.

Browse the complete IPLocate API documentation for more information on the accurate geolocation and IP intelligence data we provide.