fast-geoip
A faster & low-memory replacement for geoip-lite, a node library that maps IPs to geographical information (by onramper)
geoip2
Python code for GeoIP2 webservice client and database reader (by maxmind)
| fast-geoip | geoip2 | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 2 | |
| 212 | 1,072 | |
| 1.4% | 0.8% | |
| 0.0 | 7.6 | |
| 3 days ago | 3 months ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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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
Posts with mentions or reviews of geoip2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-26.
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what's an efficient way to get country code from IP address in a data set?
There are libraries for python, nodejs, etc that let you load a geoip database locally and do the lookups in process. This is one I found in 10 seconds of googling.
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suggestions requested to a geo-location from IP library without API calls
I researched a bit about GeoIP2(https://github.com/maxmind/GeoIP2-python) but it's not proving very effective for IPs outside of North America. If someone has any pointers, please do share I'd be grateful. Thank you.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing fast-geoip and geoip2 you can also consider the following projects:
pfelk - pfSense/OPNsense + Elastic Stack
GeoIP - DEPRECATED GeoIP Legacy Python API
MaxMind-DB-Reader-php - PHP Reader for the MaxMind DB Database Format
pygeoip
echoip - IP address lookup service
Shapely - Manipulation and analysis of geometric objects
Th3inspector - Th3Inspector 🕵️ Best Tool For Information Gathering 🔎
geojson - Python bindings and utilities for GeoJSON
sawmill - Sawmill is a JSON transformation Java library
GeoDjango - GeoDjango provides geospatial extensions to the Django web dev framework
GeoIP2-perl - Perl API for MaxMind's GeoIP2 web services and databases
geopy - Geocoding library for Python.