When you want to find out the IP address of a commentator, note the timestamp at the bottom of the comment and compare it with the time shown in the visitors log. When you see a match, then very likely that is the person who made the comment. Get the IP address of that visitor from the log.This tip was given by Dr. Lisa Cuddy.
This tip can be useful if you want to ban someone who is leaving comments you don't like as shown in this post: How to ban a person from your blog or website (click "BACK" button to get back to this site).
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UPDATE 16 August 2008: Answer to a question in the comment about whether it is still impossible to get the commentator's IP address for Blogger: "Yes it is still not possible. You can only guess, including the country. But if your blog has low traffic, it can be a very good guess to the point of certainty. If a person comment at, say, 3pm and from morning till night, that is the only visitor to the blog, than you can say that that visitor you see in your visitor counter is the one who commented."
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Peter you can link to rosedesrochers.todays-woman.net.
Why do we need to spy on visitors?
Sometimes people leave nasty comments or spam, and the owner of the blog will like to know from where they came from. It wouldn't tell the actual identity of the commentator, but their IP address from which they post. This may or may not allow the owner to guess who was it, or to make a complain.
Great post!
Thanks Peter. Just install in my blog
You can also show an image on your website to show visitor IP address and country flag. Just go to the website findmyipaddress.info. copy the code and paste it in your website. save you the time to write the code. ;)
Hi islandhopper,
Thanks for the information. However, the links you provided lead to a 404 error (Page not found). I doubt it can help because you need not only the IP address of the visitor, but the time of the visit for the method I described in the post to work.
Peter
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Thanks Peter - very useful |
i usually get anonymous comments, but i want to allow anybody to post comments on my blog, is there any way where i can oblige/require them to leave their email add before posting a comment?
You cannot make the commentator leave his email address with the Blogger commenting system, you with the Haloscan commenting system, a commentator have to give his name, email address and URL of his site.
Peter a.k.a. enviroman
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(floods in England, polar ice and ice caps at moutain peaks melting, I think more severe and frequent hurricanes in US, rain when it is supposed to be a dry season in my country, someone from Queensland recently contacted me if I noticed the weather changing. I replied when I was young I had to sleep under the blanket, but now I sleep topless. If I remembered, he said it is freezing in tropical Queensland and now he has to sleep under a blanket. Please folks, take good care of our one and only Spaceship Earth which have no lifeboat. It may not affect us severely now, but it has every chance of severely affecting our future generations. Then they will have lots to be "thankful to us)
peter, thanks for the nice info
but on my side, statcounter.com is not loading up.
i don't know if it has anything to do with my ISP
or the
DNS(OpenDNS) that i'm using.
thanks
Hi Navin,
I use all free tools and that include blogspot.com and happy to continue doing that. So I have no hands on experience with publishing via FTP etc. and may not be qualified to try to answer your question. Try Google Blogger Help group where there are people using custom domain.
Peter (Blog*Star 2006 and 2007)
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It's usefull..thank u for sharing...
hello,
is it still impossible to get their IP addres of commentators on Bloggers? And if you do get their IP address could you tell which city/country the computer is from?
Hi Pearl,
Yes it is still not possible. You can only guess, including the country. But if your blog has low traffic, it can be a very good guess to the point of certainty. If a person comment at, say, 3pm and from morning till night, that is the only visitor to the blog, than you can say that that visitor you see in your visitor counter is the one who commented.
great post here..thanks for sharing!!
I don't think you can figure out who the person is unless you like know them. Like if you get the persons location using something like ip finding
IP finding, Master Shake, is only for finding your own IP address and is useless for getting the IP address and general location of commentator. I know the method described in this post is NOT fool proof but at least it gives you the very good POSSIBILITY of getting the IP address of the commentator at the time of making the comment and his/her geographical location, especially if the traffic to the blog is not very heavy. IP finding (the link you gave) cannot do that.
Which Stat counter would you reccommend? I want a reliable one, which can show me al lthe IPs to hit my sites. I have a pagecounter from Google Adsense, but I need something to track the IP. Someone is stalking and harassing me, and I need that IP address so the police can track them down.
I know, you're probably thinking it's nothing serious, but this is beyond simple flame war. I'm worried for my personal safety.
I use www.statcounter.com and is very satisfied. You can see what kind of statistics you can get using statcounter.
Thank you; I'm really grateful.
hi,
i have installed a widget of "http://www.geovisite.com/" which used to show visitor state.but when i installed the statcounter,the geovisitor stop recording visitor's visit.so i wonder is that any crash when i install both geovisite widget and statcounter widget?
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Thanks for the tip: it helps a lot
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You should watch people coming from www.blackhatip.com spoofing their ip addresses, you can look at the originating address to find they are really originating from an yahoo proxy
hey, im new to this & just curious how can i have a url imbedded in my post, i dont mean by copying and pasting it, i mean for instance when readers click a highlighted word on the post it takes them to another post or site the blogger wants them to read. Can you help please?..thanx lots!
Refer to make active link in posts and comments
I'm using sitemeter.com and cqcounter.com and they usually work well. Unfortunately my stalker-like-commenter has figured out I do that, for his IP no longer shows up in cqcounter, only time and location shows in sitemeter. As of yesterday I'm getting nasty comments from someone who doesn't show up there either, or in google analytics.
Disguising your IP isn't hard, but how do people manage to completely stay under the radar of these sitemeters? - And do you know if it's possible to figure out where they're from anyway?
Unfortunately the method described in this post is not foolproof as those more knowledgeable ones can use anonymizer and proxy servers.
Thanks for the blog.
Even though the method is not completely foolproof, it's helpful anyway, and better than nothing :-)
This wouldn't work simply because an anonymous commenter has a way to just visit the comment page and attack you. You can even save it your fav and there attack the blog owner without having to actually visit the homepage or even post page. So, stat-counter does nothing to help you track your enemies online. I have that problem right now. I was recently bullied on my blog and had to no way to know who left nasty comments about me, literally attacking me below the belt. I wish blogger returns to its original state where we can see the commenters' IP adds. When google took over, IP adds are no more...it sucks!
Can a blogger id another bloggers IP address, for example from and MTV blog? If the IP address can be identified, how?
Do you have to own the blog in order to obtain another bloggers IP Address or can any blogger get anyones information w/out them displaying an email address?
Thanks for this information we can get the ip address by giving the domain name and at a time more than one ip address we can view from ip address
Do you have to own the blog in order to obtain another bloggers IP Address or can any blogger get anyones information w/out them displaying an email address?
Only the owner/administrator are able to put visitor counter code into template and only them have access to the visitor counter data.
Perfect, thank you!
Thanks, that's well explained.
But if, for example, the user who does the comment uses a proxy server, knowing the IP address isn't very useful right?
He/she can download a proxy list with USA or UK proxy servers and you are not going to know the real IP of the user, righ?
A good measure will be filter all the comments from the IP addresses in the proxy list?
If commentator uses proxy, whether you filter them or not, result is still the same, you will not be able to get the commentator's real IP address.
This is really useful, thank you.
But does finding the IP address mean that you can definitely find out the location of the commentator? I'm concerned that when I post on blogs, people will be able to hunt me down now!
This is really useful, thank you.
But does finding the IP address mean that you can definitely find out the location of the commentator? I'm concerned that when I post on blogs, people will be able to hunt me down now!
Can a blogger id another bloggers IP address NiTT, for example from and MTV blog? If the IP address can be identified, how?
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