https://github.com/junaidrahim/locate-route
Command line tool to grab the geographical location of the hops from traceroute.
https://github.com/junaidrahim/locate-route
cpp location traceroute
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Command line tool to grab the geographical location of the hops from traceroute.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/junaidrahim/locate-route
- Owner: junaidrahim
- License: mit
- Created: 2021-01-31T16:45:12.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2021-04-22T08:40:41.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-15T12:18:30.414Z (6 months ago)
- Topics: cpp, location, traceroute
- Language: C++
- Homepage:
- Size: 264 KB
- Stars: 23
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# locate_route
A command line tool to grab the geographical location of the hops from `traceroute`. It's like `traceroute`, but also returns the actual location of the IP address.
## Installation
Make sure you have `g++`, `curl` `cmake`, `make` and `traceroute` installed and setup on your machine.
Run the following to install the binary:
```bash
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junaidrahim/locate-route/main/install.sh | sudo bash
```
You can run `locate_route` in your shell now.
## Build from Source
1. `git clone https://github.com/junaidrahim/locate-route`
2. `mkdir build && cd build`
3. `cmake ..`
4. `make`
The binary `locate_route` will compile in the `build/` directory. You can run it from there,
or copy it into `$PATH` to access it from anywhere in your terminal.
## Usage
```sh-session
$ locate_route --help
locateroute - Get location information of the traceroute hops
USAGE:
locateroute [ip or domain name]
FLAGS:
-h, --help Display Help
```
```sh-session
$ locate_route github.com
traceroute to github.com (13.234.176.102), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 _gateway (192.168.0.1) 1.539 ms 3.299 ms 3.249 ms
2 4-144-31-103.dnainfotel.com (103.31.144.4) 3.206 ms 3.164 ms 3.121 ms
Location: Virār, Maharashtra, India, Asia
Zip: 401303, Coordinates: 19.466700,72.800003
3 1-144-31-103.dnainfotel.com (103.31.144.1) 4.287 ms 4.063 ms 4.166 ms
Location: Virār, Maharashtra, India, Asia
Zip: 401303, Coordinates: 19.466700,72.800003
4 26-69-245-103.dnainfotel.com (103.245.69.26) 6.168 ms 7.008 ms 6.620 ms
Location: Saint Thomas Mount, Tamil Nadu, India, Asia
Zip: 600001, Coordinates: 13.052400,80.250801
5 52.46.166.32 (52.46.166.32) 4.609 ms 4.869 ms 4.809 ms
Location: Ashburn, Virginia, United States, North America
Zip: 20147, Coordinates: 39.043701,-77.474197
6 52.95.67.22 (52.95.67.22) 12.384 ms 52.95.67.66 (52.95.67.66) 4.752 ms 52.95.67.22 (52.95.67.22) 14.081 ms
Location: Powai, Maharashtra, India, Asia
Zip: 400070, Coordinates: 19.076000,72.877701
7 52.95.64.196 (52.95.64.196) 9.312 ms 52.95.64.248 (52.95.64.248) 9.294 ms 52.95.64.252 (52.95.64.252) 9.275 ms
Location: Powai, Maharashtra, India, Asia
Zip: 400070, Coordinates: 19.076000,72.877701
8 52.95.64.195 (52.95.64.195) 12.942 ms 52.95.64.211 (52.95.64.211) 12.917 ms 52.95.64.253 (52.95.64.253) 8.346 ms
Location: Powai, Maharashtra, India, Asia
Zip: 400070, Coordinates: 19.076000,72.877701
9 52.95.67.127 (52.95.67.127) 12.874 ms 52.95.67.39 (52.95.67.39) 12.853 ms 52.95.67.17 (52.95.67.17) 12.831 ms
Location: Powai, Maharashtra, India, Asia
Zip: 400070, Coordinates: 19.076000,72.877701
10 52.95.67.178 (52.95.67.178) 9.119 ms 52.95.67.182 (52.95.67.182) 8.238 ms 52.95.65.135 (52.95.65.135) 10.045 ms
Location: Powai, Maharashtra, India, Asia
Zip: 400070, Coordinates: 19.076000,72.877701
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## How does it work ?
`locate_route` parses the output from traceroute to find all the ip addresses and then
uses the API provided by https://ipstack.com/ to determine the location.
## Dependencies
C++17 and CMake 3.15
* [argh](https://github.com/adishavit/argh) for setting up the CLI
* [cpp-httplib](https://github.com/yhirose/cpp-httplib) for http requests
* [nlohmann/json](https://github.com/nlohmann/json) for parsing JSON
## LICENSE
Copyright (c) **Junaid Rahim**. All rights reserved.
Licensed under the [MIT](LICENSE) License
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