ip-to-location

A tool that transforms an IP into a string of the form City, Country.

It works by scraping a free mmdb database from db-ip and performing IP lookups using libmaxminddb.

The database file is automatically kept up-to-date with the upstream monthly updates.

The compressed database file is decompressed using libdeflate.

Build

Clone the repo with its submodules:

git clone https://github.com/gmou3/ip-to-location --recurse-submodules
cd ip-to-location/

Then, to build, run:

cmake -B build
cd build/
cmake --build .

Usage

Run the compiled ip-to-location executable with an IP address as an argument. For example, to get the location of your own IP, run

./ip-to-location $(curl -s ifconfig.me)

Third party libraries used

1. libdeflate
2. libmaxminddb