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+# **_`libloc`_** - IP Address Location
+
+[Home](https://www.ipfire.org/location)
+
+`libloc` is a library for fast and efficient IP address location.
+
+It offers:
+
+- **The Fastest Lookups**: O(1) lookup time for IP addresses using a binary tree structure.
+- **Low Memory Footprint**: The database is packed in a very efficient format.
+- **Security**: Integrated signature verification for data integrity.
+- **Maintainability**: Automatic updates.
+- **Standalone**: No external dependencies, easy to integrate.
+
+`libloc` is ideal for:
+
+- Firewalls
+- Intrusion Prevention/Detection Systems (IPS/IDS)
+- Web Applications
+- Network Management Tools
+
+The publicly available daily updated database stores information about:
+
+- The entire IPv6 and IPv4 Internet
+- Autonomous System Information including names
+- Country Codes, Names and Continent Codes
+
+## Command Line
+
+`libloc` comes with a command line tool which makes it easy to test the library or
+integrate it into your shell scripts. location(8) knows a couple of commands to retrieve
+country or Autonomous System of an IP address and can generate lists of networks to be
+imported into other software.
+
+`location (8)` is versatile and very easy to use.
+
+## Language Bindings
+
+`libloc` itself is written in C. There are bindings for the following languages available:
+
+- Python 3
+- Lua
+- Perl
+
+`libloc` comes with native Python bindings which are used by its main command-line tool
+location. They are the most advanced bindings as they support reading from the database
+as well as writing to it.