Are there any plans on including zip code in the result?

[kilobyte2007]

I've noticed that in previous versions the result had the zipCode property. What's the reason for getting rid of it and are there plans on bringing it back?

[bluesmoon]

If it's in the MaxMind data, then it should be present. We haven't removed it.

[kilobyte2007]

It's not in the result. I actually managed to get it in my fork already- kilobyte2007@f8278e7

Would a pull-request make sense?

[bluesmoon]

yes

[kilobyte2007]

There's apparently an issue committing fresh .dat files as they are more than 100MB (~103MB) and that's more than GitHub allows. Any ideas?

[bluesmoon]

I don't think we can add new dat files to the repo due to the Maxmind licence changes. The dat files have to be downloaded using the update script after installation. We can continue to include the old dat files.

[kilobyte2007]

I see, but the issue is that the structure of the .dat file changed so now if you will just install the node-geoip module (with my changes) without calling updatedb - it will throw an error.

[agarciapancan]

So no solution on how to get the zip or postal code back in the response? I recently updated the package and run the update db script and it is gone.

[agarciapancan]

I found the solution here kilobyte2007@f8278e7 and remember to run the update db script after the changes are made.

[aizenrivki]

hi @kilobyte2007
why you didn't add PR for this fork?
i see there was a PR for this issue and it closed due to unit-tests didn't pass

[kilobyte2007]

I did not add a PR because in my solution the .dat file was bigger and it was impossible to commit it.
I ended up using @maxmind/geoip2-node for this and it works flawlessly.

[sapics]

I have created ip-location-api which has similar in-memory database system with geoip-lite.
You can display "zip code" whose field name is postcode as following

# Update database
npm run updatedb ILA_FIELDS=country,region1,city,metro,eu,timezone,latitude,area,postcode

# application run
node your_application.js ILA_FIELDS=country,region1,city,metro,eu,timezone,latitude,area,postcode