I’m happy to announce the first release of mmdblua.

mmdblua is a lua library to read MaxMind’s Geolocation database format. This database is the most common source of Geo-IP data; you’ll probably want to download a database from Maxmind.

The mmdblua library was something I originally wrote back during the 2013 lua workshop as a quick side project, but as I’ve recently found out there are quite a few people and projects using it. Recognising this, I did a bit of code cleanup and figured I should tag a release. I’m sorry but I haven’t had time to write documentation for the library yet, so it won’t be super friendly for new users.

Links:

• This release: https://github.com/daurnimator/mmdblua/releases/tag/v0.1
• Homepage: https://github.com/daurnimator/mmdblua
• On luarocks: https://luarocks.org/modules/daurnimator/mmdblua
• Free GeoLite2 database: https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/