Getting a machine s external IP address with Python

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Looking for a better way to get a machines current external IP      Below works  but would rather not rely on an outside site to gather the information     I am restricted to using standard Python 2 5 1 libraries bundled with Mac OS X 10 5 x  import os import urllib2  def check in         fqn   os uname   1      ext ip   urllib2 urlopen  http   whatismyip org   read       print   Asset   s     fqn   Checking in from IP    s     ext ip

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You should use the UPnP protocol to query your router for this information. Most importantly, this does not rely on an external service, which all the other answers to this question seem to suggest.

There's a Python library called miniupnp which can do this, see e.g. miniupnpc/testupnpigd.py.

pip install miniupnpc

Based on their example you should be able to do something like this:

import miniupnpc

u = miniupnpc.UPnP()
u.discoverdelay = 200
u.discover()
u.selectigd()
print('external ip address: {}'.format(u.externalipaddress()))

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If the machine is being a firewall then your solution is a very sensible one  the alternative being able to query the firewall which ends-up being very dependent on the type of firewall  if at all possible

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The most simple  non python  working solution I can think of is  wget -q -O- icanhazip com   I d like to add a very short Python3 solution which makes use of the JSON API of http   hostip info   from urllib request import urlopen import json url    http   api hostip info get json php  info   json loads urlopen url  read   decode  utf-8    print info  ip      You can of course add some error checking  a timeout condition and some convenience      usr bin env python3 from urllib request import urlopen from urllib error import URLError import json  try      url    http   api hostip info get json php      info   json loads urlopen url  timeout   15  read   decode  utf-8        print info  ip    except URLError as e      print e reason  end        e g   timed out      print   are you connected to the internet     except KeyboardInterrupt      pass

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If you think and external source is too unreliable  you could pool a few different services  For most ip lookup pages they require you to scrape html  but a few of them that have created lean pages for scripts like yours - also so they can reduce the hits on their sites    automation whatismyip com n09230945 asp  Update  whatismyip has taken this service down  whatismyip org

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If you are not interested in hitting any url to get public ip  I think following code can help you to get public ip using python of your machine  import os externalIP    os popen  ifconfig   grep  inet    cut -d  -f2   awk   print  2     sed -n 3p   readline   print externalIP   sed -n 3p line varies as per the network you are using for connecting device   I was facing same issue  I was needed public ip of iot device which is hitting my server  but public ip is totally different in ifconfig command and ip i am getting in server from request object  after this I am adding extra param into my request to send ip of device to my server    hope this is helpful

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Python3  using nothing else but the standard library As mentioned before  one can use an external service like https   ident me in order to discover the external IP address of your router  Here is how it is done with python3  using nothing else but the standard library  import urllib request  external ip   urllib request urlopen  https   ident me   read   decode  utf8    print external ip

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I use IPGrab because it s easy to remember    This example requires the requests library be installed   You can learn more   about the Requests library here  http   docs python-requests org en latest  from requests import get  ip   get  http   ipgrab io   text print  My public IP address is      format ip

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If you are behind a router which obtains the external IP  I m afraid you have no other option but to use external service like you do  If the router itself has some query interface  you can use it  but the solution will be very environment-specific and unreliable

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Here s another alternative script   def track ip              Returns Dict with the following keys     - ip    - latlong    - country    - city    - user-agent            conn   httplib HTTPConnection  www trackip net      conn request  GET     ip json      resp   conn getresponse      print resp status  resp reason     if resp status    200         ip   json loads resp read       else         print  Connection Error   s    resp reason     conn close      return ip   EDIT  Don t forget to import httplib and json

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import requests import re   def getMyExtIp        try          res   requests get  http   whatismyip org           myIp   re compile    d 1 3     3  d 1 3    search res text  group           if myIp                    return myIp     except          pass     return  n a

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Use requests module  import requests  myip   requests get  https   www wikipedia org   headers  X-Client-IP    print  quot  n    Public IP   quot  myip

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Working with Python 2 7 6 and 2 7 13    import urllib2   req   urllib2 Request  http   icanhazip com   data None    response   urllib2 urlopen req  timeout 5    print response read

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If you don t want to use external services  IP websites  etc   You can use the UPnP Protocol   Do to that we use a simple UPnP client library  https   github com flyte upnpclient   Install      pip install upnpclient   Simple Code   import upnpclient  devices   upnpclient discover    if len devices   gt  0       externalIP   devices 0  WANIPConn1 GetExternalIPAddress       print externalIP  else      print  No Connected network interface detected     Full Code  to get more information as mentioned in the github readme   In  1   import upnpclient  In  2   devices   upnpclient discover    In  3   devices Out 3      lt Device  OpenWRT router  gt     lt Device  Harmony Hub  gt     lt Device  walternate  root  gt    In  4   d   devices 0   In  5   d WANIPConn1 GetStatusInfo   Out 5      NewConnectionStatus    Connected     NewLastConnectionError    ERROR NONE     NewUptime   14851479   In  6   d WANIPConn1 GetNATRSIPStatus   Out 6     NewNATEnabled   True   NewRSIPAvailable   False   In  7   d WANIPConn1 GetExternalIPAddress   Out 7     NewExternalIPAddress    123 123 123 123

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Try  import requests  ip   requests get  http   ipinfo io json   json    ip    Hope this is helpful

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Linux only solution   On Linux Systems  you can use Python to execute a command on the shell  I think it might help someone   Something like this   assuming  dig drill  is working on the os   import os  command    dig TXT  short o-o myaddr l google com  ns1 google com   awk -F         print  2      ip   os system command    For Arch users  please replace  dig  with  drill

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I tried most of the other answers on this question here and came to find that most of the services used were defunct except one   Here is a script that should do the trick and download only a minimal amount of information      usr bin env python  import urllib import re  def get external ip        site   urllib urlopen  http   checkip dyndns org    read       grab   re findall    0-9     0-9     0-9     0-9      site      address   grab 0      return address  if   name         main       print  get external ip

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I liked the http   ipify org  They even provide Python code for using their API    This example requires the requests library be installed   You can learn more   about the Requests library here  http   docs python-requests org en latest  from requests import get  ip   get  https   api ipify org   text print  My public IP address is      format ip

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I prefer this Amazon AWS endpoint   import requests ip   requests get  https   checkip amazonaws com   text strip

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import os externalIp   os popen  quot ipconfig quot   read   split  quot   quot   15  1 14   some numbers may need to be changed but this works for me

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ipWebCode   urllib request urlopen  http   ip nefsc noaa gov   read   decode  utf8   ipWebCode ipWebCode split  color red gt     ipWebCode   ipWebCode 1  ipWebCode   ipWebCode split   lt  font gt    externalIp   ipWebCode 0    this is a short snippet I had written for another program  The trick was finding a simple enough website so that dissecting the html wasn t a pain

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As simple as running this in Python3   import os  externalIP    os popen  curl -s ifconfig me   readline   print externalIP

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In my opinion the simplest solution is   import requests f   requests request  GET    http   myip dnsomatic com   ip   f text   Thats all

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In  1   import stun  stun get ip info     Restric NAT    xx xx xx xx   55320

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There are a few other ways that do not rely on Python checking an external web site  however the OS can   Your primary issue here  is that even if you were not using Python  if you were using the command line  there are no  built-in  commands that can just simply tell you the external  WAN  IP   Commands such as  ip addr show  and  ifconfig -a  show you the server s IP address s within the network   Only the router actually holds the external IP   However  there are ways to find the external IP address  WAN IP  from the command line     These examples are   http   ipecho net plain   echo curl ipinfo io ip dig  short myip opendns com  resolver1 opendns com dig TXT  short o-o myaddr l google com  ns1 google com   Therefore  the python code would be   import os ip   os popen  wget -qO- http   ipecho net plain   echo   readlines -1  0  strip   print ip   OR  import os iN  out  err   os popen3  curl ipinfo io ip   iN close     err close   ip   out read   strip   print ip   OR  import os ip   os popen  dig  short myip opendns com  resolver1 opendns com   readlines -1  0  strip   print ip   Or  plug any other of the examples above  into a command like os popen  os popen2  os popen3  or os system

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Use this script    import urllib  json  data   json loads urllib urlopen  http   ip jsontest com    read    print data  ip     Without json    import urllib  re  data   re search     0-9        urllib urlopen  http   ip jsontest com    read    group 1  print data

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If you re just writing for yourself and not for a generalized application  you might be able to find the address on the setup page for your router and then scrape it from that page s html  This worked fine for me with my SMC router  One read and one simple RE search and I ve found it   My particular interest in doing this was to let me know my home IP address when I was away from home  so I could get back in via VNC  A few more lines of Python stores the address in Dropbox for outside access  and even emails me if it sees a change  I ve scheduled it to happen on boot and once an hour thereafter

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