geo-from-ip

Get geolocation 🌐 information about an IP 📲

Live Example

The above link will show your geolocation as identified by using your IP address.

Features

• No frills install 🚀
• Downloads databases automatically during installation 🔋
• Run npm install to upgrade databases == automatic update on deployments 💎

How to use

• Include package in your project

npm install --save geo-from-ip
# or, if you are using yarn
yarn add geo-from-ip --save

• Use package to get geo data from IP

const geoip = require('geo-from-ip')
console.log(geoip.allData('199.188.195.120'))

/*
{ code: { state: 'CA', country: 'US', continent: 'NA' },
  city: 'San Francisco',
  state: 'California',
  country: 'United States',
  continent: 'North America',
  postal: '94103',
  location:
   { accuracy_radius: 10,
     latitude: 37.7758,
     longitude: -122.4128,
     metro_code: 807,
     time_zone: 'America/Los_Angeles' } }
 */

• Update database

Database will get automatically updated every time deployment happens. But if you would like to force an update, just run:

npm install
# or, if you are using yarn
yarn

Debugging / Developing

Run your code using geo-from-ip as debug flag. Look into pacakge.json for example.

Credits

Developer: 👨‍💻 Vikram Tiwari

If you found this library helpful, or learned something from it and want to thank me, consider buying me a cup of ☕️.

Database: Max-Mind

This product includes GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind, available from https://www.maxmind.com