# fiorix/freegeoip

IP geolocation web server

Repository: https://github.com/fiorix/freegeoip
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/freegeoip
Language: Go
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: freegeoip, geolocation, go, ip-database
Last push: 2022-08-27T01:14:26+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5835, "days_push": 1468, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4934, forks 772 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:02.687313+00:00)

## What it is
freegeoip is an IP geolocation web server written in Go that provides a REST API returning country, region, city, and other location data for IP addresses, plus a Go package for embedding IP geolocation into other web servers. It powered the freegeoip.net service and can be self-hosted via Docker or pre-compiled binaries.

## Use cases
- look up the country and city of an IP address
- self-host an IP geolocation API
- add IP geolocation to a Go web server
- serve geolocation data as JSON, XML, or CSV
- run a geoip API behind a reverse proxy with HTTPS

## When to choose
- you need a self-hosted IP geolocation HTTP API in Go
- you want to embed IP geolocation into your own Go web server

## When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained project - this repo is inactive since 2018 and superseded by apilayer/freegeoip
- you need client-side or offline library geolocation without a server

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: abandoned
- function: http-server, api-framework, search-engine
- domain: web-development, apis, self-hosted
- platform: windows, go, self-hosted
- tags: ip-geolocation, geoip, rest-api, deprecated, maps, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- fiorix/freegeoip (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:02.687313+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:17:57.949364+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/fiorix/freegeoip (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:02.687313+00:00, sha 998b6a3457d0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.