geoip-lite/node-geoip

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A fully native JavaScript Node.js library implementing MaxMind's GeoIP API using GeoLite data files. It performs fast, synchronous IP-to-location lookups returning country, region, city, timezone, and coordinates for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

Use cases

• look up the country and city of an IP address in node
• geolocate visitor IPs in an express server
• get latitude and longitude from an IP without calling an external API
• fast synchronous IP to geo mapping for nodejs
• resolve IP address timezone and region locally

When to choose

• you need extremely fast, in-process IP geolocation lookups in Node.js
• you want a pure JavaScript solution without native C library bindings
• you need synchronous lookups with no network calls at request time

When to avoid

• you need full IPv6 city/region/postal data, which GeoLite does not provide
• you run on memory-constrained instances, since all data is loaded into RAM
• you need the most feature-complete MaxMind API, where libgeoip bindings are better

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geospatial sdk developer-tools web-development backend analytics geoip ip-geolocation maxmind geolite2 synchronous-lookup maps nodejs javascript

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