imclab/iplookup-httpony

A very simple WSGI-compliant HTTPony for doing IP lookups.

iplookup-httpony

This is a stripped down verion of the Mozilla geodude code which is a small WSGI-compliant HTTPony for doing IP lookups.

I (re)wrote this during a telco because it seemed like a useful thing to have around.

How do I use this thing?

First fetch the MaxMind GeoIP Country Lite database by running:

$> make geoip

This will fetch the GeoIP database and store it in the data directory.

Next copy iplookup.cfg.example to iplookup.cfg (or whatever you want to call it and update the path for the geoip.db config parameter:

[geoip]
db=/path/to/iplookup-httpony/data/GeoIP.dat

Now run the server using Gunicorn. Gunicorn specific configs (port, worker type, etc.) are left as an exercise to the reader.

$> cd bin

$> gunicorn 'iplookup:httpony("../iplookup.cfg")'

Now perform an IP lookup (if you don't pass an ip CGI parameter then the remote address of the requesting client will be used) :

$> curl 'http://127.0.0.1:8000?ip=8.8.8.8' | python -mjson.tool

{
    "ip": "8.8.8.8",
    "iso": "US"
}