MaxMind will be retiring the GeoIP Legacy databases at the end of May 2022. Until then, this library will only receive critical security and bug fixes. Support for this library will end completely with the last release of the legacy GeoIP databases.
We recommend that you upgrade to our GeoIP2 databases. You can read these from Python using our GeoIP2 Python API.
See our blog post for more information.
Setuptools is known for its poor backward compatibility. Some newer versions of setuptools fail to handle the metadata of the GeoIP package during the build process. This is a fork of the original GeoIP package that uses scikit-build-core to build the C extension instead of setuptools.
- Python 2.5+ or 3.3+
- GeoIP Legacy C Library 1.4.7 or greater
With pip:
$ pip install GeoIPFrom source:
$ python setup.py build
$ python setup.py installIP geolocation is inherently imprecise. Locations are often near the center of the population. Any location provided by a GeoIP database should not be used to identify a particular address or household.
See the examples in the examples folder.
If you get a "libGeoIP.so.1: cannot open shared object No such file or directory" error, add /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf then run /sbin/ldconfig /etc/ld.so.conf
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