[lug] geolocate ip address scripts

[karl horlen]

I've been searching on the web for some free ip
geolocator scripts and databases.  I keep coming up
with paid services or a single free solution for
ASP.net which  I don't want.

I can already scrape a unique list of IPs from my
apache logs easily enough using a bash script.  The
next step is to feed those into a script that does a
geo lookup on the ip address and outputs the location.

Anybody have any suggestions or possibly done this
before and mind sharing?  

It doesn't matter to me if it's php or perl and mysql.
  It would be great if I could do the entire thing in
bash but to do this locally requires a local ip lookup
city db.  Getting a decent db solves 95% of this as
programming it should be pretty easy.

I could use a remote lookup service but the ones I've
seen either have limits on the number of lookups or
are paid services.  And I haven't seen any that are
really web services with remote APIs.  You need to
enter an ip address from a web page.



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