The API is based on MaxMind's C-based Python API, but the code itself is ported from the Pure PHP GeoIP API by Jim Winstead and Hans Lellelid.
It is mostly a drop-in replacement, except the new and open methods are gone.
Tested using tox with Python version 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.0 and 3.1.
Bug reports are done by creating an issue on Github. If you want to contribute you can always create a pull request for discussion and code submission.
You can easily install pygeoip with setuptools:
easy_install pygeoip
- Country
- Region
- City
- Organization
- ISP
Create your GeoIP instance with appropriate access flag. STANDARD reads data from disk when needed, MEMORY_CACHE loads database into memory on instantiation and MMAP_CACHE loads database into memory using mmap.
import pygeoip
gi = pygeoip.GeoIP('/path/to/GeoIP.dat', pygeoip.MEMORY_CACHE)
>>> gi.country_code_by_name('google.com')
'US'
>>> gi.country_code_by_addr('64.233.161.99')
'US'
>>> gi.country_name_by_addr('64.233.161.99')
'United States'
>>> gic = pygeoip.GeoIP('/path/to/GeoIPCity.dat')
>>> gic.record_by_addr('64.233.161.99')
{
'city': 'Mountain View',
'region_name': 'CA',
'area_code': 650,
'longitude': -122.0574,
'country_code3': 'USA',
'latitude': 37.419199999999989,
'postal_code': '94043',
'dma_code': 807,
'country_code': 'US',
'country_name': 'United States'
}
>>> gic = pygeoip.GeoIP('/path/to/GeoIPCity.dat')
>>> gic.time_zone_by_addr('64.233.161.99')
'America/Los_Angeles'
For more information, check out the full API documentation.