get current location with geolocate

[masoudr]

Hi,
I want to get the current location based on this link but I can't find any python example to do that. I want to create a general code to get the current location.
I used this part of code but it didn't work.

import googlemaps
gmaps = googlemaps.Client(key='my_key')
loc = gmaps.geolocate()
print(loc)

Thanks.

[domesticmouse]

You need to supply Wifi and Cell tower information for the Geolocate API to do it's job. From the documentation: The Google Maps Geolocation API returns a location and accuracy radius based on information about cell towers and WiFi nodes that the mobile client can detect.

[masoudr]

I'already test that but I couldn't retrieve the information. is there any example to do this?
Another problem is I want to create a general purpose app that is independent on some information. For example, works on any wifi router or cellular network.

[domesticmouse]

Extracting the WiFi and Cell tower information is platform specific and outside the scope of the API. You may be better off using the geolocation APIs available on specific platforms, e.g. Web, iOS and Android.

[masoudr]

Thanks,
But I want to create a python script to retrieve current location of the user and it must be independent of wifi or cellular information, I mean something like web API but in the python script.
There is no example for python API for geolocation.

[domesticmouse]

As explained in the documentation, this Geolocation API requires WiFi and Cellular tower information to be able to calculate the location. Without this required data, there is nothing this API can do.

[forwhomthebelltools]

Hello @masoudr, maybe you have to disable geocoding API from google console and leave geolocation api enabled. In this way your script will run and you will get location with accuracy in meters. I tried your python script above but the position returned is non accurate, because of geolocation by ip address.

[masoudr]

@forwhomthebelltools Thanks for the tip. I tried the manual method and sent POST request directly to Google API and it worked somehow.

[trinanda]

Hello @masoudr , can i see the scripts have you tried and works?

[masoudr]

@trinanda I couldn't get any result from googlemaps API. If you need the location you can use google doc and manually send a request with a proper body to the server and get the location.

[joeljogy]

Hey, here's a different solution to the same problem and you can obtain more accurate geolocation(lat,lng coordinates) using selenium.

Tutorial for that can be found here: https://link.medium.com/LOSOvlDLiU

Or find the script for it, directly here: https://github.com/joeljogy/Getting-GeoLocation

[jenlincode]

@joeljogy This is perfect. Thank you for your solution.

[markmelnic]

Hey, here's a different solution to the same problem and you can obtain more accurate geolocation(lat,lng coordinates) using selenium.

Tutorial for that can be found here: https://link.medium.com/LOSOvlDLiU

Or find the script for it, directly here: https://github.com/joeljogy/Getting-GeoLocation

This is a cool but very unsustainable solution.