This script will:
1) Determine the external IP address of the current computer.
2) Do a GeoIP lookup on that IP to determine info about this
computer's current location.
3) Return this info.
This can be used to, for instance, have a current and correct (usually
correct enough) zip when retrieving online weather data or movie listings.
I wrote it specifically to interact with a weather plugin I used to use
with conky.
You do need to have the Geo::IP CPAN module installed and a GeoIPCity.dat
file available. Both of these things used to be, and probably still are,
available in Debian's apt.tekniklr/ip_location
This can be used to have a current and correct (usually correct enough) zip when retrieving online weather data or movie listings.
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