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This module enables you to retrieve the customer's geolocation using their IP address, utilizing data obtained from an official and high-speed API.
This documentation provides information about the lightweight Node.js module designed for sending requests to a geolocation data API. This module enables you to retrieve location information for a specified IP address and takes full advantage of native modules. The official API is thoroughly optimized ⚡ and secure 🔐.
We use the MaxMind database in the geoip-lite2 module for our API. Due to certain limitations, the database is not updated daily (and never will be) by the module's developer. Updates are issued periodically.
There is an alternative to this module that allows for local geolocation retrieval based on a specific IP address. However, this will increase the memory usage because the alternative module stores the MaxMind database in RAM.
npm install geoip2-api
const geoIp = require('geoip2-api');
(async () => {
const data = await geoIp.get('185.244.214.231');
console.log(data);
});
{
"success": true,
"status": 200,
"validationErr": false,
"ip": "185.244.214.231",
"data": {
"range": [3119830528, 3119830783],
"country": "PL",
"region": "14",
"eu": "1",
"timezone": "Europe/Warsaw",
"city": "Warsaw",
"ll": [52.1574, 21.0126],
"metro": 0,
"area": 20
}
}
If you want to get the client's geolocation, instead of providing an IP, use /api/v2/geoip/myip
.
For any questions or issues related to the script, please visit the GitHub repository for the latest updates and support.
If you like this module, please star ⭐ the repository.
This GeoIP API client script is provided under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.
Copyright 2023-2024 © by Sefinek. All Rights Reserved.
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This module enables you to retrieve the customer's geolocation using their IP address, utilizing data obtained from an official and high-speed API.
We found that geoip2-api demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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