Collect IP Address background information for WebLog

We collect information about all visist to our weblog. We know for example the IP-address for every visitor. It would be interesting to also have the Country for these visitors – so we know who we are catering for. I have created a table WP_VISITORS:

mysql> desc wp_visitors;
+------------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field            | Type             | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+------------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| ip               | varchar(15)      | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| first_visit      | datetime         | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| number_of_visits | int(10) unsigned | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| country          | varchar(50)      | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| continent        | varchar(20)      | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
+------------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+

in the WordPressDB database. Now I want to set up a daily Java action that will update Country and Continent for the top 100 visitors among the records that have not yet had there country set. This Java action can make use of the IP WebService described in this post: How to lookup information based on IP address – e.g. for Website-visitors

For development, it is more convenient to have the wp_visitors table with test-data available in my local (Oracle) database. I export the table from the WordPressDB database on our Linux-server using this statement:

mysqldump -p --where='number_of_visits>50' wordpressDB wp_visitors > visitordata.txt

The resulting visitordata.txt file can easily be transfered to my laptop computer.