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Michael Davis
Michael Davis

Reputation: 2430

Offline geolocation lookup with python

Is there a way to lookup geolocation data without hitting an external service every time an IP address needs to be checked?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3279

Answers (2)

Wes
Wes

Reputation: 301

Before I found http://freegeoip.net/json/ I was using another ip lookup (can't remember what it was) and I logged all the results using the first two segments of the IP so I could use it as a reference table when the service I was using went over quota (which seemed to happen quite often)

So I saved the first two octets and the location, then used those to match against and built my own local table.

It may not have been exact but probably close.

So if an IP was 65.55.219.178 I saved 

65.55 -> Richmond WA

eventually I had a pretty large local table that covered 90% of my needs.

Upvotes: 1

user1864610
user1864610

Reputation:

Maxmind offer downloadable Geo-IP databases, and libraries for a raft of languages )including Python) to query them.

Upvotes: 2

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