Locus with IP2Proxy support
Zabrane opened this issue · 5 comments
Hi @g-andrade
Are you planning to support IP2Proxy detection within Locus?
By the way, Locus is very useful for us. Big thanks
Hi @Zabrane, sleek website!
I’d like for locus to support any MMDB database - 50% of it because I really like the wire format and spec, the other 50 because it was the right time and place for me back when I did the bulk of the work and it matched what I needed for my job.
So, if it’s MMDB format, maybe - if not, I’ve scratched that itch already (I skimmed the website, I’m sorry if it obviously is or isn’t and I missed it.)
All of that having been said: this library was a pet project all along, and I’ve moved onto other things. Let me know if your proposal is a simple extension of what ‘locus’ already does.
Cheers,
Hi @g-andrade
The IP2Proxy database is available in both CSV in Bin (MMDB) format if I'm not mistaken (see screenshot).
Will you consider supporting IP2Proxy in the future?
locus doesn't like the binary format:
Their FAQ page mentions that it's a custom binary format - no mention of MMDB - and I didn't find a spec for it.
There is, however, an Erlang module which may fit your needs, although it looks bare bones (not an Erlang app, no rebar3 or other tooling configured, really just the parser):
https://www.ip2location.com/development-libraries/ip2location/erlang
Also, someone somewhere once wrote a script to convert IP2Proxy databases to MMDB format:
https://github.com/fengdelan/convert-ip2proxy-lite-mmdb
(I now realize I tested IP2Location databases earlier - not IP2Proxy - but the later are also not in MMDB format.)
@g-andrade Thanks for taking the time on this topic. It's very strange the the 02 databases use different binary formats (not compatible with MMDB).
I will try to reach out their support to see what can be done.
Keep up the good work @g-andrade