How To Redirect By Country, Region or IP

Introduction

Several options are available if you have an international audience and want to redirect users by country or region. Redirecting by country or region can be done with a free API from FreeIPLookupAPI.com, which will let you know where your users are coming from so that you know how best to serve them content. This post will show how to set up redirection based on IP address or country code using this API and how to do the same thing for states/regions within a country if needed.

How To Redirect By Country

Redirecting users to different locations based on the country they are in is a common practice. For example, you may want to create separate websites for other countries or regions and redirect users from one site to another based on their location. To do this, we can use a geo-location service, which returns the visitor’s country code if available (and also has an IP lookup API).

Using A Free API To Redirect Users

One of the most popular ways to redirect users is by knowing their IP address. This can be done by implementing a ip api.Here are the steps you need to follow:

• Get your user’s IP address with JavaScript or PHP (see example).
• Look up the user’s country in the database and get their region code from there (see example provided by the API provider).
• Redirect them to another URL based on what you found in step 2 above. Hence, the actual redirect has to be conducted from your end, based on the data provided by the API. 

How To Redirect By State/Region

If you want to redirect traffic in a specific state or region, you can use the freeiplookupapi.com API.

• The country code is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code as defined by International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
• The state/region code is an alphanumeric identifier of a subnational entity, usually a territory with limited autonomy and its associated geographical area. It’s what we call the postal abbreviation or ZIP Code of your customers’ location.
• The city code identifies the most populous municipality within each county in the United States and Puerto Rico (the island commonwealth related to the United States).

You can use freeiplookupapi.com to geo-locate and redirect your users

For example, freeiplookupapi.com is a free API that allows you to redirect your users based on country, state, region and IP address. It’s fast, reliable and easy to use. The site is completely free for all of its features.

How To Redirect By IP Address

If you don’t have access to forward and redirect, you can use an IP address in the URL.

• To redirect users by country:

“`https://api.freeiplookupapi.com/v1/ip/?country=US“`

• To redirect users by region:

“`https://api.freeiplookupapi.com/v1/ip/?region=CA“`

Conclusion

You should understand how to redirect users based on their country, state, or region. We hope you found our guide helpful and that it will help you create better experiences for the people who visit your website.