Spins up a web server which will return json files based on queries to the GeoLite2 database.
It is recommended that you have ~4GB of free memory to use this.
Run the geolite-api application in a directory that the user that owns
the process can write to. The application will begin by downloading several
CSVs from Geolite's website and then building an in-memory data structure
from them. Building the data structure may take several minutes depending
on the hardware the application is running on. The application will use
100% of a single CPU during this time. After this finishes, CPU utilization
will drop down to nearly 0%, and the application will start listening for
HTTP requests on port 3000. The port is not currently configurable.
This application is built with cabal-install. If you don't know how to
use this tool, find someone who does, and they can build the application
for you.
Query the API with requests to these two routes:
/ipv4/:addr
/ipv6/:addr