Telize.com, a JSON IP and GeoIP REST API, goes open-source

by djvdorp • 11 years ago

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jffry• 11 years ago

It's always been open-source, at least according to its author's blog post, which was previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10573561

whitehat2k9• 11 years ago

Ended up writing my own (more-or-less API-compatible) GeoIP server after the free Telize service shut down: https://github.com/kz26/balise

nodesocket3• 11 years ago

Looks good, but a lot of setup and configuration to get going. We (https://commando.io) use https://github.com/fiorix/freegeoip in production and it has been amazing.

Freegeoip is super easy to setup, go. It auto-fetches source data from MaxMind, supports https, and has rate limiting capability.

vive-la-liberte3• 11 years ago

GeoIP is unreliable. Just as an example of this, freegeoip.net reports that my IP belongs in a city 50 miles (80 kilometers) away from where I actually am at the moment.

With data so inaccurate, why even bother?

nodesocket3• 11 years ago

This inst GPS, 50 miles is actually quite good. The point is to get a general geographic area (City or State, heck even Country is super useful). Obviously there are tons of edge cases and inaccuracy with GeoIP, but that is expected.

kajecounterhack• 11 years ago

MaxMind's free GeoIP data is bad, but their premium data is actually very good.

https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip-demo

Enough so that I've used it on GeoIP critical tasks in the past. Unfortunately it's an API, so you have a limited # of calls.

latchkey• 11 years ago

That reminds me, I also have one of these simple rest wrappers around the MaxMind database that I should open source... mine runs on AppEngine so it is infinitely scalable and super easy to deploy... ;-)

nchiring• 11 years ago

Please do so :)

woodhull• 11 years ago

We've been running this open source code in production for about a year. Works great, but not sure it's really news...

ruffrey• 11 years ago

I had some sites using telize and happened to go there on a fluke one day to lookup my info while on vpn. It said they were shutting down the free geoip site in 2 days! Got lucky.

Telize.com, a JSON IP and GeoIP REST API, goes open-source

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