deegles / ipstack_app

test app

Geocoder CLI App

A simple utility to geocode an IP address into a latitude,longitude result. Uses the IPStack API.

Notes

• This implementation does not implement caching or throttling. I would add a SQLite based cache and a rate limiter so that the app does not get throttled by the API.
• We do check that the input is valid
• Docker integration can be better, it's just a simple wrapper at the moment

Prerequisites

Create a .env file in the root of the project and add API_KEY_IPSTACK=YOURIPSTACKAPIKEY.

Usage

Run npm i -g and then geo -i 192.168.1.1 or alternatively pipe in the address echo "192.168.1.1" | geo

Setting the output format to JSON is also supported echo "192.168.1.1" | geo -f JSON

Docker Usage

Run npm i && npm build:docker

In your bash.rc or zsh.rc add alias geo_docker= docker run -i geo_docker geo

Run echo "192.168.1.1" | geo_docker