Posted by Steve on 08/23/07 14:24

"tanuj96" <tanujchatterjee@gmail.com> wrote in message
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except it's a completely bad sign when they use my ip and show i'm from san
fransisco when i'm more than half way across a continent.

ip-address.com got it correct. there are tons of others. again, you could
use them instead of a whois. the parsing code i wrote would do fine to get
data from the mirad out there. worried about copious calls to it? get a list
of those you want to use and select from them randomly. if one doesn't turn
up geo info (changed the tags the info is in, didn't have any info, etc.)
move to the next. it would be far easier to notice that a site's tags have
changed than trying to keep up a db with current information...unless you
want to pay, which i'm not to into doing.

of course others have different thoughts on all of that. i'll go with
whatever my employer wants, but if it's just for me...parsing/scraping is
the lightweight, free approach that only requires you to monitor the tags on
the page(s) you're scraping...and you can have your system notify you when
it appears successive requests are turning up blanks...hell, before you get
your panties in a wad, you can even turn around automatically and test those
with a known ip (yours) and if it's blank, email or otherwise alert yourself
to get things back in line with that page's tags.

but i digress...

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