/maxminddb

Pure Ruby GeoIP2 MaxMind DB reader.

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maxminddb

Pure Ruby GeoIP2 MaxMind DB reader, which doesn't require libmaxminddb.

You can find more information about the GeoIP2 database here.

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Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'maxminddb'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install maxminddb

Usage

db = MaxMindDB.new('./GeoLite2-City.mmdb')
ret = db.lookup('74.125.225.224')

ret.found? # => true
ret.country.name # => 'United States'
ret.country.name('zh-CN') # => '美国'
ret.country.iso_code # => 'US'
ret.city.name(:fr) # => 'Mountain View'
ret.subdivisions.most_specific.name # => 'California'
ret.location.latitude # => -122.0574
ret.to_hash # => {"city"=>{"geoname_id"=>5375480, "names"=>{"de"=>"Mountain View", "en"=>"Mountain View", "fr"=>"Mountain View", "ja"=>"マウンテンビュー", "ru"=>"Маунтин-Вью", "zh-CN"=>"芒廷维尤"}}, "continent"=>{"code"=>"NA", "geoname_id"=>6255149, "names"=>{"de"=>"Nordamerika", "en"=>"North America", "es"=>"Norteamérica", "fr"=>"Amérique du Nord", "ja"=>"北アメリカ", "pt-BR"=>"América do Norte", "ru"=>"Северная Америка", "zh-CN"=>"北美洲"}}, "country"=>{"geoname_id"=>6252001, "iso_code"=>"US", "names"=>{"de"=>"USA", "en"=>"United States", "es"=>"Estados Unidos", "fr"=>"États-Unis", "ja"=>"アメリカ合衆国", "pt-BR"=>"Estados Unidos", "ru"=>"Сша", "zh-CN"=>"美国"}}, "location"=>{"latitude"=>37.419200000000004, "longitude"=>-122.0574, "metro_code"=>807, "time_zone"=>"America/Los_Angeles"}, "postal"=>{"code"=>"94043"}, "registered_country"=>{"geoname_id"=>6252001, "iso_code"=>"US", "names"=>{"de"=>"USA", "en"=>"United States", "es"=>"Estados Unidos", "fr"=>"États-Unis", "ja"=>"アメリカ合衆国", "pt-BR"=>"Estados Unidos", "ru"=>"Сша", "zh-CN"=>"美国"}}, "subdivisions"=>[{"geoname_id"=>5332921, "iso_code"=>"CA", "names"=>{"de"=>"Kalifornien", "en"=>"California", "es"=>"California", "fr"=>"Californie", "ja"=>"カリフォルニア州", "pt-BR"=>"Califórnia", "ru"=>"Калифорния", "zh-CN"=>"加利福尼亚州"}}]}

Even if no result could be found, you can ask for the attributes without guarding for nil:

db = MaxMindDB.new('./GeoLite2-City.mmdb')
ret = db.lookup('127.0.0.1')
ret.found? # => false
ret.country.name # => nil
ret.to_hash # => {}

For testing or other purposes, you might wish to treat localhost IP addresses as some other address - an external one. You can do this by assigning the desired external IP address to the attribute local_ip_alias:

db = MaxMindDB.new('./GeoLite2-City.mmdb')
ret = db.local_ip_alias = '74.125.225.224'
ret = db.lookup('127.0.0.1')
ret.found? # => true
ret.country.name # => 'United States'
ret.to_hash.empty? # => false

It's also possible to access the database metadata.

db = MaxMindDB.new('./GeoLite2-City.mmdb')
db.metadata['build_epoch'] # => 1493762948
db.metadata # => {"binary_format_major_version"=>2, "binary_format_minor_version"=>0, "build_epoch"=>1493762948, "database_type"=>"GeoLite2-City", "description"=>{"en"=>"GeoLite2 City database"}, "ip_version"=>6, "languages"=>["de", "en", "es", "fr", "ja", "pt-BR", "ru", "zh-CN"], "node_count"=>3678850, "record_size"=>28}

Regarding thread safety

A MaxMindDB instance doesn't do any write operation after it is created. So we can consider it as an immutable object which is 'thread-safe'.

File reading strategies

By default, MaxMinDB.new will read the entire database into memory. This makes subsequent lookups fast, but can result in a fairly large memory overhead.

If having a low memory overhead is important, you can use the LowMemoryReader by passing a file_reader argument to MaxMindDB.new. For example:

db = MaxMindDB.new('./GeoLite2-City.mmdb', MaxMindDB::LOW_MEMORY_FILE_READER)
ret = db.lookup('74.125.225.224')

The LowMemoryReader will not load the entire database into memory. It's important to note that for Ruby versions lower than 2.5.0, the LowMemoryReader is not process safe. Forking a process after initializing a MaxMindDB instance can lead to unexpected results. For Ruby versions >= 2.5.0, LowMemoryReader uses File.pread which works safely in forking environments.

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( http://github.com/yhirose/maxminddb/fork )
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request