In previous articles such as "Revisiting Locating User Positions Using IP Addresses (ip2region)" and "Summary of Methods for Locating User Positions Using IP Addresses", we introduced many methods and tools for IP geolocation. These include GeoIP, ipip, ip2region, as well as numerous third-party service providers like Amap and Baidu. Among them, some are online, some are offline, some are paid, and some are free. A few days ago, the editor came across another interesting open-source IP geolocation library: public-ip-address.

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