Maxmind Geo-Location Service Setup

In this section we will discuss step by step process for integrating Maxmind Geolocation service in Blink.

Create a free Maxmind account at https://www.maxmind.com/en/geolite2/signup
Go to Manage License Keys section.
Get Account id and License key from Maxmind.

Get Maxmind Keys

Open your backend code in VS Code and open package.json file. Write account id and license key in geolite2 section's "account-id" and "license-key" respectively.

Get Maxmind Keys

package.json
  "geolite2": {
    "account-id": "*******",
    "license-key": "****************************************",
    "selected-dbs": [
      "Country"
    ]
  }

Then open the .env file and write the MAXMIND_ACCOUNT_ID and MAXMIND_LICENSE_KEY variables respectively.

.env
# Maxmind
MAXMIND_ACCOUNT_ID="*******"
MAXMIND_LICENSE_KEY="****************************************"

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