[Feature Request] Integrate IPinfo's free IP to Country Database

[abdullahdevrel]

I am requesting to add support for IPinfo's IP to Country database to the project. The database has the following features:

• It is updated daily, with zero compromise to accuracy. There is no range clustering, and the database provides full accuracy.
• The data granularity reaches individual IP level.
• The database comes in MMDB database format.
• It is licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0, permitting commercial usage.
• Available file formats include: CSV, MMDB, JSON
• The data is tabular and unnested, making it very easy to use. The dataset includes both IPv4 and IPv6 in a single file.

Database schema

Field Name	Example	Data Type	Description
start_ip	1.0.16.0	TEXT	Starting IP address of an IP address range
end_ip	1.0.31.255	TEXT	Ending IP address of an IP address range
country	JP	TEXT	ISO 3166 country code of the location
country_name	Japan	TEXT	Name of the country
continent	AS	TEXT	Continent code of the country
continent_name	Asia	TEXT	Name of the continent

Documentation: https://ipinfo.io/developers/ip-to-country-database

Samples are available here: https://github.com/ipinfo/sample-database/tree/main/IP%20to%20Country

The database can be downloaded simply by accessing the storage URI with an access token.

curl -L https://ipinfo.io/data/free/country.mmdb?token=<YOUR_TOKEN> -o country.mmdb

Let me know what you think. Thanks!

[bretg]

@abdullahdevrel - you're welcome to open a Pull Request with support for this geo-lookup system. The core team would be happy to review your code, but we're very unlikely to actually build this feature until a major publisher demands it.

Out of curiosity, does it support IPv6?

[abdullahdevrel]

Hey @bretg thanks for the review. I think it would be challenging to do a PR at this moment. If you switch our IP database, you have an alternative with our database as it is more accurate and updated daily.

Out of curiosity, does it support IPv6?

Of course. The IPv6 and IPv4 addresses are contained within this single database.

[bretg]

Thanks @abdullahdevrel - I'll leave this issue open for a few months to see if any community member expresses interest in doing the work.