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This is IP2Location Ruby library that enables the user to find the country, region or state, district, city, latitude and longitude, ZIP/Postal code, time zone, Internet Service Provider (ISP) or company name, domain name, net speed, area code, weather station code, weather station name, mobile country code (MCC), mobile network code (MNC) and carrier brand, elevation, usage type, address type, IAB category and ASN from IP address using IP2Location database. The library reads the geo location information from IP2Location BIN data file or web service.
Supported IPv4 and IPv6 address.
For more details, please visit: https://www.ip2location.com/developers/ruby
To learn more about installation, usage, and code examples, please visit the developer documentation at https://ip2location-ruby.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html.
This library requires IP2Location BIN data file to function. You may download the BIN data file at
You can also sign up for IP2Location Web Service to lookup by IP2Location API.
Email: support@ip2location.com
URL: https://www.ip2location.com
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We found that ip2location_ruby 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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