freegeoip has a new home

[fiorix]

As of this week, freegeoip has a new home at https://github.com/apilayer/freegeoip/

This repo will be archived soon and if you have inquiries going forward please open issues on that repo instead. The domain freegeoip.net is being transitioned to apilayer's infrastructure and we expect no service disruption, but if you find anything wrong please report to @apilayer.

I am done with running freegeoip after 9 years of its existence. :)

cc @packetrich, @gleicon

[espen]

Thanks for all the work @fiorix !

[andrewjmead]

Thanks for the time you spent building this! Do you know if the service will still remain free and open without an API key?

[fiorix]

I don't know their exact plans but feel free to ask in their repo.

[julian-zehetmayr]

Hi Guys,

Here's our announcement about our future plans with freegeoip: https://github.com/apilayer/freegeoip/

[puckey]

Thanks for the amazing service and all your work over the years @florix!

[thomasbalsloev]

@fiorix
A big thanks for all your effort!

[MACscr]

Seems the new maintainer simply took your code and only created a commercial product, so I can only assume there was ill intent to simply drive traffic to his service without any intention to actually support this awesome project. Has anyone actually forked it and still has it working?

[lpellegr]

As an alternative, Ipregistry is blazingly fast, accurate and inexpensive. You can get 100,000 free lookups by signing up.

[msmpro]

As an alternative, I started Ipregistry. You can get 100,000 free lookups by signing up.

Toooooo strange... you use the same logo as https://ipstack.com and the same web with different colors...

[msmpro]

As an alternative, I started Ipregistry. You can get 100,000 free lookups by signing up.

Toooooo strange... you use the same logo as https://ipstack.com and the same web with different colors...

Are you serious? please compare pages side by side... Looks like you have a serious mental issue.

Thanks for your polite words. Good luck!

[jsonUK]

Hi,

Is anyone actively maintaining another fork of this project?
Sad to see it go commercial, but understand the effort required to maintain such project.

Thanks for all your previous hard work @fiorix -- anyone who has a free alternatives, links are appreciated.

[dlebech]

This one-liner worked for me (April 2022) to run the existing Docker container running without a Maxmind download:

docker run --restart=always -p 8080:8080 fiorix/freegeoip -db https://download.db-ip.com/free/dbip-city-lite-2022-04.mmdb.gz

This is using the free lite database from db-ip.com.

Update: I've created a fork that automatically builds a new version with an embedded database once per month with the free database from db-ip.