maxminddb-geolite2

Description

maxminddb-geolite2 is a library that provides access to MaxMind's GeoIP2 databases. It depends on the official MaxMind library for functionality, but it conveniently ships a recent version of the GeoLite2 City database as provided by MaxMind.

This package includes GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind, available from maxmind.com <http://www.maxmind.com>_ under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Installation

You can get the library directly from PyPI:

.. code-block:: bash

$ pip install maxminddb-geolite2

Usage

Once you have installed the maxminddb-geolite2 package you can start using the database straight away:

.. code-block:: pycon

>>> from geolite2 import geolite2
>>>
>>> reader = geolite2.reader()
>>> reader.get('1.1.1.1')
{'country': ... }
>>>
>>> geolite2.close()