Abstract’s IP Geolocation API Laravel Client Library

Getting Started

Abstract’s IP Geolocation API is a fast, lightweight, modern, and RESTful JSON API for determining the location and other details of IP addresses from over 190 countries.

The free plan is limited to 1,000 requests per month. To enable all the data fields and additional request volumes see https://www.abstractapi.com/api/ip-geolocation-api#pricing.

Installation

The package works with PHP 8 and is available using Composer.

composer require laravelcm/abstract-ip-geolocation

Usage

Open your application's \app\Http\Kernel.php file and add the following to the Kernel::middleware property:

protected $middleware = [
    ...
    \Laravelcm\AbstractIpGeolocation\Middleware\AbstractIpGeolocation::class,
];

Quick Start

Route::get('/', function () {
    $geolocation = session()->get('abstract-ip-geolocation')
    $location = "The IP address " . $geolocation->ipAddress;
    return view('index', ['location' => $location]);
});

Will return the following string to the index view:

"The IP address 127.0.0.1"

Mais par défaut cet object $geolocation est une instance de la classe \Laravelcm\AbstractIpGeolocation\DataObject\GeolocationData qui donne toutes les valeurs transformées de l'API (tableau) en objet PHP. Les informations sont stockées par défaut dans la session depuis le middleware, ce qui vous permet d'avoir accès aux informations n'importe où dans votre code.

Voici le contenu de l'objet $geolocation apres un dump:

Laravelcm\AbstractIpGeolocation\DataObject\GeolocationData {#1164
  +ipAddress: "166.171.248.255"
  +city: "Paris"
  +cityGeonameId: 2997712
  +region: "Île-de-France"
  +regionIsoCode: "IDF"
  +regionGeonameId: 3012874
  +postalCode: "75002"
  +country: "France"
  +countryCode: "FR"
  +countryIsEU: true
  +continent: "Europe"
  +continentCode: "EU"
  +continentGeonameId: 3017382
  +longitude: 2.3024
  +latitude: 48.6939
  +security: Laravelcm\AbstractIpGeolocation\DataObject\Security {#839
    +isVpn: false
  }
  +timezone: Laravelcm\AbstractIpGeolocation\DataObject\Timezone {#1182
    +name: "Europe/Paris"
    +abbreviation: "CEST"
    +gmtOffset: 2
    +currentTime: "19:08:34"
    +isDST: true
  }
  +flag: Laravelcm\AbstractIpGeolocation\DataObject\Flag {#1165
    +svg: "https://static.abstractapi.com/country-flags/FR_flag.svg"
    +png: "https://static.abstractapi.com/country-flags/FR_flag.png"
    +emoji: "🇫🇷"
    +unicode: "U+1F1EB U+1F1F7"
  }
  +currency: Laravelcm\AbstractIpGeolocation\DataObject\Currency {#817
    +name: "Euros"
    +code: "EUR"
  }
  +connection: Laravelcm\AbstractIpGeolocation\DataObject\Connection {#425
    +connectionType: "Cable/DSL"
    +autonomousSystemNumber: 45980
    +autonomousSystemOrganization: "Free SAS"
    +ispName: "ProXad network / Free SAS"
    +organizationName: "Proxad / Free SAS"
  }
}

Configuration

Config file are located at config/abstract-ip-geolocation.php after publishing provider element.

Fields

By default, all fields are returned by the Abstract API, but you can choose to retrieve just the values you're interested in from the API. To do this, you need to specify the fields you want (the list of fields is available here https://docs.abstractapi.com/ip-geolocation#request-parameters).

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Geolocation Fields
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| You can include a fields value in the query parameters with a comma
| separated list of the top-level keys you want to be returned. For example
| "fields => 'city,region'" will return only the city and region in the response.
|
| see: https://docs.abstractapi.com/ip-geolocation#request-parameters
*/

'fields' => null,

Once you've specified the fields you want (e.g. country,currency) only these values will be returned by the API and in your geolocations DTO object, you'll only have the country and currency values available - the others will be null.

To access this information, consult session().

$geolocation = session()->get('abstract-ip-geolocation');

$geolocation->country // return "France"
$currency = $geolocation->currency // instance of \Laravelcm\AbstractIpGeolocation\DataObject\Currency

DTO

The available DTO classes are listed below. In the json return from the Abstract Geolocation API, all objects are represented by DTO classes

• \Laravelcm\AbstractIpGeolocation\DataObject\GeolocationData which represents the geolocation class containing all information relating to the user via its IP address
• \Laravelcm\AbstractIpGeolocation\DataObject\Connection which represents the DTO class for its connection origin information
• \Laravelcm\AbstractIpGeolocation\DataObject\Currency which represents the DTO class for the currency
• \Laravelcm\AbstractIpGeolocation\DataObject\Flag which represents the DTO class for country flag information
• \Laravelcm\AbstractIpGeolocation\DataObject\Timezone which represents the DTO class for Timezone information
• \Laravelcm\AbstractIpGeolocation\DataObject\Security which represents the DTO class for security information, lets you know whether the user is using a VPN or not

License

This package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.