Get public IP from bash
In case anyone finds this useful, sometimes I need to get my public IP from bash or scripts and I use api.myip.com, only because it's easy to remember.
But more and more often lately, some IPs are blocked there and get http errors, so I bought a cheap domain and I woke up a $3/year @natvps_uk from idling, and..
wget -4 -qO- myip.cam
or for ipv6
wget -6 -qO- myip.cam
(or curl -4L myip.cam
if curl is your thing)
Comments
I've always used ifconfig.me, it's quite easy to remember. I use da.gd/ip for IPv6 though.
Yeah I wouldn't remember da.gd/ip even if my life was depending on it
That's very true, I often bungle the letters up myself...
I need to check IPs of VPN docker container to see if IP really changed or not.
I use
curl https://ifconfig.co/ip
for ipv4curl -6 https://ifconfig.co/ip
for ipv6But I could not remember it. I always copy paste from a txt file.
Your's is quite easy to remember.
This will be quite handy.
Thanks for it
BTW
curl -4L myip.cam
is for IPv4 I guess?What's curl command for IPv6 ?
ip.sb is also a good choice.
https://4.ident.me for ipv4
https://6.ident.me for ipv6
curl -6L myip.cam
Btw, the -L is needed because nat http proxy redirects http to https.
If I find a vps with a public IPv4 for under $10/year, I will have both 443 and 80 reply, so -L will not be needed
Good idea, I also enabled
curl -s https://checkip.amazonaws.com
"How miserable life is in the abuses of power..."
F. Battiato ---
https://canhazip.com/
It's worth reading about previous people who've run these kinds of service. Once they got popular, they start consuming a lot of bandwidth, so it might not be best to advertise it too widely... e.g. the one I just posted: https://blog.apnic.net/2021/06/17/how-a-small-free-ip-tool-survived/
Lol crazy, I wouldn't expect that. Thanks!
And this is why we can't have nice things.
What a weird name, never use it before.
https://microlxc.net/
These are owned by Cloudflare and operated on Workers platform
https://major.io/2021/06/06/a-new-future-for-icanhazip/
HostBrr aff best VPS; VirmAche aff worst VPS.
Unable to push-up due to shoulder injury 😣
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can_Has_Cheezburger?
It was the dominant meme on the internet for about 6 months about 15 years ago.
ipinfo.io
If you're bored, then try this:
https://myip.wtf/
bash?
Real G's use zsh
You can set up your own service via cf workers too
Only gotcha is it returns whatever resolves faster...so sometimes ipv4 sometimes 6
An interesting, educational, and entertaining story. Thanks for sharing.
This is so cool!
https://cloudserver.net/billing/index.php?rp=/store/custom-packages/leb-1gb-annual-plan
curl ipinfo.io
curl v6.ipinfo (v6)
Thanks, It turned out I had another one with a public IP that was auto-renewing idling so I just moved the service there.
Finally, the following requests are possible
By the way the service is a quick 'n' dirty custom C# async web-server behind an nginx reverse proxy. It seems that it can do 1-1.5k requests per second without much of trouble. (famous last words)
Yeah good point. I use bash so long that it's become a synonym for terminal
You could do it with pure nginx
location / { default_type text/plain; return 200 "$remote_addr"; }
I remember a few years back I wanted to do this exact thing, a simple text output ip lookup. It seemed so simple, but wasn't (for me). I wish I knew about this little nginx trick then.
You can do it in Caddy with something that looks like:
Oh, I did that same thing
https://geoip.mxtrans.net/ip for plain ip return,
https://geoip.mxtrans.net/json for geoip json format.
Also short for ip.mx.sb, but you need add -L for redirection.
curl -L ip.mx.sb
Yeah, I've been using ifconfig.me for years. It's neat and well enough for me.
I have used a very simple php script for years to accomplish just this, I cant believe I did not think of doing it this way instead.
It's just so simple it's brilliant, thank you.