[Request] What to do if we don't need the 'city' database ?

[BenStirrup]

Hello all,

Our use case only involves the use of the country data from an ip. Example :

const country = lookup(ip).country

We don't even need to query or download the cities database.

@bluesmoon would there be a good way to go about it ?

[bluesmoon]

honestly, I'm a bit rusty on this. I think it should be possible to run without a city database, I just don't remember how.

[sapics]

I have created ip-location-api which has similar in-memory database system with geoip-lite.
In ip-location-api, we can customize fields to display and the default field is only country which matches your requirements, I guess.

[shiv-source]

@BenStirrup After thoroughly reviewing the code, it appears that the package, as it currently stands, is not capable of adapting to the specific settings you're trying to configure. Regardless of whether you need certain properties or not, the package caches the MaxMind data at initialization, which can be unnecessarily resource-intensive.

To achieve better performance and flexibility, the package's internal architecture would need to be revised. Specifically, it should support selective caching, allowing only essential data to be loaded based on configuration, rather than defaulting to cache everything. This would prevent the overhead associated with caching MaxMind's heavy datasets when they aren't needed.

[bluesmoon]

patches welcome.