GeoIP-lite-country
Stripped down node-geoip-lite. Only supports country lookup and IPv4.
Software is written by Philip Tellis philip@bluesmoon.info, latest version is available at https://github.com/bluesmoon/node-geoip
synopsis
var geoip = require('geoip-lite');
var ip = "207.97.227.239";
var geo = geoip.lookup(ip);
console.log(geo);
{ range: [ 3479299040, 3479299071 ],
country: 'US',
region: '' }
installation
1. get the library
$ npm install geoip-lite-country
2. get the datafiles
Then download the city data files from https://github.com/bluesmoon/node-geoip/tree/master/data
You need to get geoip-city.dat and geoip-city-names.dat and put them into the data/ directory
of this package.
API
Looking up an IP address
If you have an IP address in dotted quad notation, IPv6 colon notation, or a 32 bit unsigned integer (treated
as an IPv4 address), pass it to the lookup method. Note that you should remove any [ and ] around an
IPv6 address before passing it to this method.
var geo = geoip.lookup(ip);
If the IP address was found, the lookup method returns an object with the following structure:
{
range: [ <low bound of IP block>, <high bound of IP block> ],
country: 'XX', // 2 letter ISO-3166-1 country code
}
The actual values for the range array should be considered internal to geoip-lite.
To get a human readable format, pass them to geoip.pretty()
If the IP address was not found, the lookup returns null
Pretty printing an IP address
If you have a 32 bit unsigned integer, or a number returned as part of the range array from the lookup method,
the pretty method can be used to turn it into a human readable string.
console.log("The IP is %s", geoip.pretty(ip));
This method returns a string if the input was in a format that geoip-lite can recognise, else it returns the
input itself.
Copyright
geoip-lite is Copyright 2011-2012 Philip Tellis philip@bluesmoon.info and the latest version of the code is
available at https://github.com/bluesmoon/node-geoip
License
There are two licenses for the code and data. See the LICENSE file for details.
