ip3country

This is a zero-dependency, super small, IP address to 2-letter country code lookup library. There are already several libraries available, but none met our requirements for binary size and speed.

This project in its entirety is <300KB, compared to most alternatives out there that are north of 40MB (but might provide more than just countries).

(Other languages: Python: https://github.com/statsig-io/ip3country-py, Go: https://github.com/statsig-io/ip3country-go, Ruby: https://github.com/statsig-io/ip3country-ruby, Kotlin: https://github.com/statsig-io/ip3country-kotlin, C#/.Net: https://github.com/statsig-io/ip3country-dotnet)

The database used in this project is compacted from IP2Location. Their DB1.LITE edition is provided under CCA, with the attribution below:

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NOTE

This site or product includes IP2Location LITE data available from https://lite.ip2location.com.

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Usage

1$ npm install ip3country

1// Setup
2const ip3country = require("ip3country");
3
4ip3country.init();
5
6// Lookup using ip4 str
7ip3country.lookupStr("123.45.67.8"); // 'KR'.
8
9// Lookup using numeric ip
10console.log(ip3country.lookupNumeric(2066563848));

Accuracy

ip3country's accuracy is dependent on IP2Location LITE's accuracy. In our experience, for country lookups, it is accurate enough for most applications.

IP2Location publishes accuracy reports here: https://www.ip2location.com/data-accuracy

There's also this third party report available: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~nz247/publications/JSAC2011-Geolocation.pdf

Binary data

To make this library easy to consume, we're using btoj to transform the necessary binary data into a js module that can be imported like any other module. You won't need to list ip3country as an external in your build process.

We're currently using brotli compression via NodeJS's zlib library, which won't work in Browser environments. If you want ip3country on a browser, check version 3.0.0 (and feel free to publish ip3country-browser).

Name

All variants of "ip2country" were already taken in npm, so we decided to step it up.

Motivation

At Statsig, we needed a library to evaluate location-based conditions on Feature Gates (Feature Flags). We use ip3country to power country-level rollouts or A/B tests for new features.