A short history of the CLI I built to stop curling IP APIs

publishes a Lite edition every month under CC BY 4.0 — no account, no API key, just a .mmdb file you download. It is the same binary format MaxMind uses, so you can read it with the maxmind npm package in microseconds.

So I built a small backend service and put it in the same repo, under api/. It is a tiny . Docs at ipwhoami-docs.vineethnk.in. Install it with npm i -g ipwhoami or brew tap vineethkrishnan/ipwhoami && brew install ipwhoami. If you hit a surprise, open an issue — I like surprises.