turbo-geoip-country v24.4.0
turbo-geoip-country
This is an updated, performance-focused fork of node-geoip with only country data. Inspired by geoip-ultralight
This product uses GeoLite data created by MaxMind, available from https://www.maxmind.com/
š” You would need to create an account and get a license key to update data by yourself
How to install š
npm install turbo-geoip-country --save
How to use it š¤
const turboGeoip = require('turbo-geoip-country');
const ip = "207.97.227.239";
const country = turboGeoip.getCountry(ip);
console.log(country);
'US'
// Also it works with anonymized ip
const ip = "207.97.227.0";
const country = turboGeoip.getCountry(ip);
console.log(country);
'US'
Why turbo-geoip-country
ā”ļø
- š Get country code (2 letter ISO-3166-1) by IP v4/v6
- š Works also with anonymized IP
- š„ Performance focused (see the section below)
- ā Less than 19 MB memory footprint (instead of +110 MB of node-geoip)
- ā° Data updated on 1st April 2024
- š Using Calendar versioning
- š Production-ready, used by Ghostboard.io
- ā”ļø Updated dependencies and 5 removed
- š¤ Code reduced and deprecations updated
Performance š„
š” Based on the average performance of 10 executions of each package on a 2018 Mac Mini i7 6c12t 16GB
Metric | node-geoip | turbo-geoip-country | delta |
---|---|---|---|
Startup time | 47 ms | 17 ms | 63.83 % faster |
Time to find 1 ip | 7 Ī¼s/ip | 4 Ī¼s/ip | 42.86 % faster |
IP lookups per second | 139534.884 ip/s | 250000.000 ip/s | 44.19 % more ip/s |
Test yourself node test/performance.js
Found 30000 (17030/12970) ips in 120ms (250000.000 ip/s) (4Ī¼s/ip)
Took 17 ms to startup
vs node-geoip node test/geo-lookup.js
Found 30000 (16917/13083) ips in 215ms (139534.884 ip/s) (7Ī¼s/ip)
Took 47 ms to startup
How to update the data š
Run cd node_modules/turbo-geoip-country && npm run-script updatedb license_key=YOUR_LICENSE_KEY
š Replace YOUR_LICENSE_KEY
with your license key obtained from maxmind.com. You can create a maxmind account here
š” This takes about 1 minute
Tests ā
Run npm t
> nodeunit test/tests.js
tests.js
ā testLookup
ā testDataIP4
ā testDataIP6
ā testUpdatedIps
OK: 7 assertions (19ms)
References
Copyright
geoip-lite
is Copyright 2011-2018 Philip Tellis philip@bluesmoon.info and the latest version of the code is
available at https://github.com/bluesmoon/node-geoip
License
There are two licenses for the code and data. See the LICENSE file for details.