GeoIp Data and helpers

Installation

pip install django-geoip-utils

In your settings write:

import geoip_utils
GEOIP_PATH = geoip_utils.where()

This product includes GeoLite data created by MaxMind, available from http://maxmind.com/

Settings

GEOIP_REQUEST_IP_RESOLVER

Default

'geoip_utils.core.remote_addr_ip'

The function used for getting the IP of the client from the request.

Options

• 'geoip_utils.utils.remote_addr_ip'

  Uses the REMOTE_ADDR of the request. Good for development and standard setup

• 'geoip_utils.utils.x_forwarded_ip'

  Picks the first IP of the HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR request header. This is useful for Load balancers, but could be spoofed in some cases. Amazon ELB sets this reliably though.

• 'geoip_utils.utils.real_ip'

  Uses the HTTP_X_REAL_IP attribute

GEOIP_CACHE_METHOD

Default

django.contrib.gis.geoip.GeoIP.GEOIP_STANDARD

The caching function used for retrieving the location.

Options

• django.contrib.gis.geoip.GeoIP.GEOIP_STANDARD

  Read database from filesystem, uses least memory

• django.contrib.gis.geoip.GeoIP.GEOIP_MEMORY_CACHE

  Load database into memory, faster performance but uses more memory

• django.contrib.gis.geoip.GeoIP.GEOIP_CHECK_CACHE

  check for updated database. If database has been updated, reload filehandle and/or memory cache. This option is not thread safe but is good for development.

• django.contrib.gis.geoip.GeoIP.GEOIP_INDEX_CACHE

  Just cache the most frequently accessed index portion of the database, resulting in faster lookups than GEOIP_STANDARD, but less memory usage than GEOIP_MEMORY_CACHE - useful for larger databases such as GeoIP Organization and GeoIP City. Note, for GeoIP Country, Region and Netspeed databases, GEOIP_INDEX_CACHE is equivalent to GEOIP_MEMORY_CACHE.

• django.contrib.gis.geoip.GeoIP.GEOIP_MMAP_CACHE

  Loads database into mmap shared memory (not available on Windows).

Utilities

There are a few server utility functions to make the handling easier:

from geoip_utils import core as geoip

geoip.get_country(request)

geoip.get_city(request)

geoip.get_lat_lon(request)

geoip.get_country_code(request)

geoip.get_country_name(request)

Template filters

There are filters for extracting the information you need in the templates. You need to have django.core.context_processors.request enabled in your TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS:

{% load geoip_tags %}

{{ request|country_code_of_request }}
{{ request|city_name_of_request }}
{{ request|postal_code_of_request }}
{{ request|region_of_request }}
{{ request|dma_code_of_request }}
{{ request|area_code_of_request }}
{{ request|lat_of_request }}
{{ request|lon_of_request }}

Management command

You can run the update_geoip_data management command to download updated GeoIP data in place.