Whereisthis
This gem is meant to be simple, easy to operate command-line application to help determine the location information from a given ip address or url.
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Installation
$ gem install whereisthis
Usage
Useage is meant to be fairly straightforward. The application even defaults to a help menu.
Ip Address
Get all information about a particular ip address 8.8.8.8:
$ whereisthis 8.8.8.8
or
$ whereisthis -i 8.8.8.8
Url
Get all information about a particular url www.google.com:
$ whereisthis www.google.com
or
$ whereisthis -w www.google.com
Help Menu
Help menu -h or --help or just run the application without any arguments:
-c, --city Show the city location information if possible
-r, --region Show the region location information if possible
-C, --Country Show the country location information if possible
-g, --gps Show the latitude and longitude information if possible
-p, --postal Show the postal information if possible
-o, --org Show the organization information if possible
-H, --Hostname Show the hostname information if possible
-i, --ip=<s> Specify the ip address to lookup
-w, --website=<s> Specify the website url to lookup
-v, --version Print version and exit
-h, --help Show this message
License
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.