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Hi I was wondering if anyone knew how to get user location of web apps users by using a local database.
I know maxmind exists but for some reason can't get it to work with my version of node, mainly I think because it's the free version..

I don't want to spend $500 for a paid copy & i'm looking for a solutions.

TLDR: Hitting API limits, need User location has it's key part of site functionality.

Nothing illegal about this, it just uses user location to sort by city and is not used for tracking.

Any help much appreciated!
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If it's really that much of a problem you can have the user select their city from a list.
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TTG_Hayden wrote I know maxmind exists but for some reason can't get it to work with my version of node, mainly I think because it's the free version..


That's not true if you're using the open source version. You're probably using it incorrectly.

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There are several 3rd party APIs for Node. Even if they didn't work, it would not be difficult to create your own API using the official libraries.
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TTG_Hayden wrote I know maxmind exists but for some reason can't get it to work with my version of node, mainly I think because it's the free version..


That's not true if you're using the open source version. You're probably using it incorrectly.

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There are several 3rd party APIs for Node. Even if they didn't work, it would not be difficult to create your own API using the official libraries.


Yeah i've tried implementing with the geoip , geoip2 & node-geoip.

There seems to be an error reading the mmdb file for some reason.

I wouldn't think all of the packages would be broken and rather that it was my error but i've tried multiple times.

I've got it to work with Ruby and C but I think these APIs are broken.\

geoip2.init('./GeoLite2-Country.mmdb');
  geoip2.lookupSimple("154.20.166.80", (error, result) => {
    if (error) {
      console.log(error);
    } else if (result) {
      console.log(result);
    }
  });


Here's my code.

Error: Error opening MMDB: Error opening the specified MaxMind DB file


Path is correct & mmdb downloaded straight off maxmind.
I tried two different db's.

Have you used it with node?
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