Updated Ruby Code for Querying IpInfoDB

This version adds two main features:

• avoids barfing if the array size is zero when appending to the query string
• sends the web service 25 queries at a time instead of one
• speed: it’ll do about 3000 resolutions per minute now

[ruby]require ‘rubygems’ require ‘hpricot’ require ‘open-uri’ ips = [] file = File.open(‘/Users/daniel/Development/newfile’, ‘w’) File.open(‘/Users/daniel/Development/ips3′).each { |line| ips.push line } while !ips.empty? do query = "" 25.times do if !ips.empty? query += ips.pop.chomp + "," end end query.chop! doc = Hpricot(open("http://ipinfodb.com/ip_query2.php?ip=#{query}")) (doc/’location’).each do |el| ip = (el/’ip’).inner_html country = (el/’countryname’).inner_html state = (el/’regionname’).inner_html city = (el/’city’).inner_html puts "#{ip},#{country},#{state},#{city}" file.puts "#{ip},#{country},#{state},#{city}" file.flush() end end[/ruby]

[ Sorry for the mangled code; let me know if you want the clean version. ]

Next I’m going to try and pull the databases local and use hash tables like a co-worker did in .NET. He got the whole thing down to 8 seconds, regardless of how many items he had to query.

That’s the advantage of being local, but I think there’s also value in being more portable with the web call–especially when I can do a massive set of data in just a few minutes.

Anyway, I’m going to try the local version just for the fun of it. ::

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