Locate a cell tower

Interrogates the network for the latitude, longitude, country name, country code, operator name, and time zone of a specific cell tower. If the tower is unavailable, returns the last recorded values for that tower.

Identify the location area using either lac or lai, and the cell using either cellid or ci.

Optional fields

Send null without quotes for any object you do not want to set. The value remains as previously set. To set a new value, replace null with the value in quotes. To remove an existing value, send an empty string.

post

Autorizações

PHPSESSIDstringObrigatório

The session cookie established when the user logs in. Sent as Cookie: PHPSESSID=<CookieNumber>.

The Location API username and password are sent separately, in the request body of each call.

Corpo

usernamestringObrigatório

The Eseye-assigned Location API username.

Example: ExampleUsername

passwordstring · passwordObrigatório

The Eseye-assigned Location API password.

Example: ExamplePassword

request_idstringOpcional

A request identifier for tracking responses.

Example: 1

Respostas

200

The request was processed. Check status.status to determine whether the lookup succeeded.

application/json

request_idstringOpcional

The returned request identifier, for tracking responses.

Example: 1

post/index/locatemast

POST /index/locatemast HTTP/1.1
Host: location.eseye.com
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 161

{
  "request_id": "1",
  "username": "ExampleUsername",
  "password": "ExamplePassword",
  "mast": {
    "mcc": "234",
    "mnc": "30",
    "lai": "47A",
    "ci": "c0f6",
    "lac": "1234",
    "cellid": "4567"
  }
}

200

The request was processed. Check status.status to determine whether the lookup succeeded.

{
  "status": {
    "status": "OK",
    "errorCode": "",
    "errorMessage": ""
  },
  "request_id": "1",
  "mast": {
    "mcc": "234",
    "mnc": "30",
    "lai": "47A",
    "ci": "c0f6cf",
    "lat": 51.245,
    "lon": -0.6067,
    "countryname": "United Kingdom",
    "countrycode": "GB",
    "operatorname": "EE UK",
    "timezone": "Europe/London"
  }
}