Geo-Locator

A native NodeJS API for the GeoLite data from MaxMind.

This product includes GeoLite data created by MaxMind, available from http://maxmind.com/

introduction

Extend Geoip-lite by enabling direct update from main module

synopsis

var geoip = require('geo-locator');

var ip = "207.97.227.239";
var geo = geoip.lookup(ip);

console.log(geo);
{ range: [ 3479299040, 3479299071 ],
  country: 'US',
  region: 'CA',
  city: 'San Francisco',
  ll: [37.7484, -122.4156] }

installation

1. get the library

$ npm install geo-locator

2. get the datafiles

Then download the city data files from https://github.com/bluesmoon/node-geoip/tree/master/data You need to get geoip-city.dat and geoip-city-names.dat and put them into the data/ directory of this package.

You could also run geoip.updateMaxmindeDB to do this automatically.