@risan/ip-to-country

IP to Country

Get country from IP address using MaxMind GeoLite2 binary database.

Installation

$ npm install @risan/ip-to-country

Usage

const ipToCountry = require("@risan/ip-to-country");

(async () => {
  try {
    const result = await ipToCountry("123.45.6.7");

    if (result) {
      console.log(result);
    } else {
      console.log("IP address not found.");
    }
  } catch(error) {
    console.error(error.message);
  }
})();

API

ipToCountry(ip)

Parameters

• ip (String): The IP address to lookup.

Returns

It returns a Promise which when resolved contains undefined or an Object. undefined means the given IP address is not found in the database. Here's an example of the resolved country object:

{
  code: "ID",
  name: "Indonesia",
  flag_emoji: "🇮🇩",
  geoname_id: 1643084,
  names: {
    de: "Indonesien",
    en: "Indonesia",
    es: "Indonesia",
    fr: "Indonésie",
    ja: "インドネシア共和国",
    "pt-BR": "Indonésia",
    ru: "Индонезия",
    "zh-CN": "印度尼西亚"
  },
  continent: {
    name: "Asia",
    code: "AS",
    geoname_id: 6255147,
    names: {
      de: "Asien",
      en: "Asia",
      es: "Asia",
      fr: "Asie",
      ja: "アジア",
      "pt-BR": "Ásia",
      ru: "Азия",
      "zh-CN": "亚洲"
    }
  }
}

• code: Two-letter country code in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 format.
• name: The country name.
• flag_emoji: The country flag emoji.
• geoname_id: The GeoNames id.
• names: The country name in various language.
• continent: The continent data.

License

CC-BY-SA 4.0 · Risan Bagja Pradana

This product includes GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind, available from https://www.maxmind.com. GeoLite2 Database and Contents Copyright (c) 2018 MaxMind, Inc.

The MaxMind GeoLite2 database incorporates GeoNames geographical data, which is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.