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python-geoacumen-city
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pip install python-geoacumen-city
>>> import geoacumen_city
>>> import maxminddb
>>> reader = maxminddb.open_database(geoacumen_city.db_path)
>>> reader.get("1.1.1.1")
{'city': {'names': {'en': 'Sydney'}},
'continent': {'code': 'OC',
'geoname_id': 6255151,
'names': {'de': 'Ozeanien',
'en': 'Oceania',
'es': 'Oceanía',
'fa': 'اقیانوسیه',
'fr': 'Océanie',
'ja': 'オセアニア',
'ko': '오세아니아',
'pt-BR': 'Oceania',
'ru': 'Океания',
'zh-CN': '大洋洲'}},
'country': {'geoname_id': 2077456,
'is_in_european_union': False,
'iso_code': 'AU',
'names': {'de': 'Australien',
'en': 'Australia',
'es': 'Australia',
'fa': 'استرالیا',
'fr': 'Australie',
'ja': 'オーストラリア',
'ko': '오스트레일리아',
'pt-BR': 'Austrália',
'ru': 'Австралия',
'zh-CN': '澳大利亚'}},
'location': {'latitude': -33.8688, 'longitude': 151.209},
'subdivisions': [{'names': {'en': 'New South Wales'}}]}
>>>
Note that you must still comply with the requirements of the DB-IP license specified here: https://db-ip.com/db/download/ip-to-city-lite
That is the following:
You are free to use this IP to City Lite database in your application, provided you give attribution to DB-IP.com for the data.
In the case of a web application, you must include a link back to DB-IP.com on pages that display or use results from the database. You may do it by pasting the HTML code snippet below into your code :
<a href='https://db-ip.com'>IP Geolocation by DB-IP</a>
FAQs
Library to access/distribute DB-IP IP to City Lite Database
We found that python-geoacumen-city demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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