Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

The MaxMind database in Python

There are other Python modules that use the MaxMind database:

• geoip2: Provides access to the GeoIP2 web services and databases (https://github.com/maxmind/GeoIP2-python)
• maxminddb-geolite2: Provides a simple MaxMind DB reader extension (https://github.com/rr2do2/maxminddb-geolite2)

In the following script, we can see an example of how to use the maxminddb-geolite2 package.

You can find the following code in the geoip_reader.py file:

#!/usr/bin/env python3import socketfrom geolite2 import geolite2import argparseimport json# Setup commandline argumentsparser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Get IP Geolocation info')parser.add_argument('--hostname', action="store", dest="hostname", required=True)# Parse ...