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I should clarify that I was looking for an "offline" API/library that I can use against a local copy of the Lite database, but this is great stuff too.

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Not sure what language you're looking for, but those exist too. Here's a Python one: https://maxminddb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

If you click through one of the links (e.g. Python) you will see it does allow you to do so!

https://pypi.org/project/geoip2/

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