Author: Jacob Magnusson. Follow me on Twitter

About

This is a simple Flask extension for pygeoip. Not yet thoroughly tested, but has been working great for me so far.

Installation

Install using pip...

pip install Flask-GeoIP

...or clone the project from github.

git clone https://github.com/jmagnusson/Flask-GeoIP.git

Configuration

The GeoIP file that you want to use needs to be set in your config:

GEOIP_FILEPATH = '/path/to/geoip.dat'

You can change the caching method (default is 'STANDARD') that is used by pygeoip:

GEOIP_CACHE = 'MEMORY_CACHE'

Then in the code you do:

from flask.ext.geoip import GeoIP
app = Flask(__name__)
app.config.from_pyfile('/path/to/myconfig.py')
geoip = GeoIP(app)
country = geoip.country_name_by_addr('1.2.3.4')

Or if using a factory function for creating your app:

from flask.ext.geoip import GeoIP
geoip = GeoIP()
...
app = create_app('/path/to/myconfig.py')
geoip.init_app(app)
country = geoip.country_name_by_addr('1.2.3.4')

Documentation

This readme.

Credits

Thanks go out to maxmind and appliedsec for making these great libs.