hapi-maxmind-web

About

This is a Hapijs plugin for MaxMind GeoIP2 Web Service.

Options

• decorate: a string, defaults to maxmind if not specified. This is the identifier in hapi's server.decorate() call when registering the plugin. Once specified, you can reference the following attributes:

  • request.decorate_string.client
  • request.decorate_string.lib
  • server.decorate_string.client
  • server.decorate_string.lib

  where lib is exposed through the plugin (require('@maxmind/geoip2-node').WebServiceClient)

• userId: a numeric string, your maxmind userId

• licenseKey: a token string, your maxmind licenseKey

Example

See example.js for example.

Other thoughts

I would suggest that caching is enabled for the query results from using this plugin because Maxmind bills by the number of queries - regardless if you query for the same IPs or not. Based on the information from a support representative from Maxmind, they update their databases weekly on Tuesdays, so it makes sense to cache the results for a duration that works for you.