How To Get a User's Location With JavaScript (Geolocation API Tutorial)

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to get a user's location with JavaScript.

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We can request the user's location with JavaScript using the GeoLocation API, which is available in most modern browsers, and it gives us a function to call which will help us determine the user's location with JavaScript.

Getting the user's location in JavaScript is pretty simple and we'll break this JavaScript tutorial down into working with the JavaScript GeoLocation API and how to convert latitude and longitude to address.

In the video we'll take a look at the JavaScript GeoLocation API and how it can be used to get the user's location with JavaScript. Of course the user needs to provide consent to your website / App to find their location but if they do you'll get a longitude and latitude value back which approximately represents where the user is located.

The second part of this JavaScript tutorial will focus on parsing the date from the JavaScript GeoLocation API in to a textual representation of the user's address. In order to do this we'll need to use a 3rd party API to convert our longitude and latitude data in to an actual address.

So hopefully you'll see in this JavaScript tutorial how to get a user's location with JavaScript (or how to get a users location with JavaScript) using Geolocation or more specifically with a Geolocation HTML5 tutorial making this a useful addition as a 'location with JavaScript' tutorial to the JavaScript HowTos series.

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