use JSON::PP qw/decode_json/; use IPC::Run3::Shell::CLIWrapper; my $geoip = IPC::Run3::Shell::CLIWrapper->new( { fail_on_stderr=>1, stdout_filter => sub {$_=decode_json($_)} }, qw/ geoip --json --DB=dbi:SQLite:dbname=geoipdb / ); my $data = $geoip->('209.197.123.153');