Mastering Python for Networking and Security

The MaxMind database in Python

There are other Python modules that are using the MaxMind database:

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

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

You can find the following code in the geolite2_example.py file:

import socketfrom geolite2 import geolite2import argparseimport jsonif __name__ == '__main__': # Commandline arguments parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Get IP Geolocation info') parser.add_argument('--hostname', action="store", dest="hostname",required=True) ...