fast-geoip
A faster & low-memory replacement for geoip-lite, a node library that maps IPs to geographical information (by onramper)
GeoIP2-perl
Perl API for MaxMind's GeoIP2 web services and databases (by maxmind)
| fast-geoip | GeoIP2-perl | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | |
| 212 | 18 | |
| 1.4% | - | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| 3 days ago | almost 2 years ago | |
| Python | Perl | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
fast-geoip
Posts with mentions or reviews of fast-geoip.
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Free & accurate geoip package/service?
Or use this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/fast-geoip -- it's updated periodically via CI, and they claim it is always up to date.
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Express.js and Geo lookup
There is also fast-geoip which focuses more on faster startuptimes while geoip-lite loads everyting into ram for quick lookups.
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Curious about the best way to respect privacy in my app
I'm using a CDN to host the app, and what I would like is running a lambda in front of the CDN that, before fetching the style JSON, finds the rough location of the user (using their IP address). The reason being two fold:
GeoIP2-perl
Posts with mentions or reviews of GeoIP2-perl.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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MaxMind GeoIP moduels are marked as "deprecated". What are good alternatives?
In a GitHub issue they recommend using the DB reader.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing fast-geoip and GeoIP2-perl you can also consider the following projects:
pfelk - pfSense/OPNsense + Elastic Stack
MaxMind-DB-Reader-php - PHP Reader for the MaxMind DB Database Format
Th3inspector - Th3Inspector 🕵️ Best Tool For Information Gathering 🔎
echoip - IP address lookup service
MaxMind-DB-Reader-python - Python MaxMind DB reader extension
sawmill - Sawmill is a JSON transformation Java library
geoip2 - Python code for GeoIP2 webservice client and database reader
country-ip-blocks - CIDR country-level IP data, straight from the Regional Internet Registries, updated hourly. This is a read-only mirror.