[Discontinued] Freegeoip Ruby

A Ruby library for the Freegeoip API. Since freegeoip.app is no longer functional this gem is also none functional.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'freegeoip-api'

And then execute:

bundle

Or install it yourself as:

gem install freegeoip-api

Usage

Anywhere in your code

require 'freegeoip'

Freegeoip.get('google.com')
 => #<Freegeoip::Response:0x007f9552bb9ba0
     @remote="google.com",
     @ip="172.217.7.14",
     @country_code="US",
     @country_name="United States",
     @region_code="CA",
     @region_name="California",
     @city="Mountain View",
     @zip_code="94043",
     @time_zone="America/Los_Angeles",
     @latitude=37.4192,
     @longitude=-122.0574,
     @metro_code=807>

In the command line

$ freegeoip get google.com
Searching for: google.com
------------------------
IP: 172.217.5.14
Country code: US
Country name: United States
Region code: CA
Region name: California
City: Mountain View
ZIP Code: 94043
Time zone: America/Los_Angeles
Latitude: 37.4192
Longitude: -122.0574
Metro code: 807

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to basic human decency.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Credits

This codebase is very much a modified version of https://github.com/TheNaoX/freegeoip