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geocrasher
I got tired of sending people to ad laden websites, some of them quite obnoxious, just for an IP. So I made this.

No ads, no affiliation with anybody but the guy who made it, just a place to get Just Your IP.

rdubs333
One does not simply upvote to the top alone! Thank you, bookmarked!
easrng
There's also icanhazip.com and /cdn-cgi/trace on any Cloudflare-proxied site.
ksbrooksjr
I didn't know about the /cdn-cgi/trace Cloudflare trick. Here's a one-liner to print just the ip via curl:

  curl -s cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace | grep ip | cut -d "=" -f 2 --
stevekemp
You could use awk instead of grep & cut:

      curl -s cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace | awk '{FS="="} /ip/ {print $2}'
luismedel
And sed:

    curl -s cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace | sed -nr "s/^ip\=(.+)$/\1/p"
I_complete_me
What do those -- at the end do? I get my IP without them.
btgeekboy
That may return IPv6 if you have IPv6 connectivity, which might not be what you're looking for.

I just do this, myself:

IP=`curl -s checkip.amazonaws.com`

dave_sid
How about a sister site called notyourip.com that shows someone else’s IP address?
leifg
That is already 100 times better than existing solutions.

That being said, I find it useful to see the location I'm connecting from (mostly to make sure that my VPN works).

geocrasher
Do you mean rdns for your hostname, or geolocation? Or both?
leifg
Not sure what the difference is but either probably works for my use case.
zauguin
Personally I prefer ifconfig.me which takes this idea one step further.

Especially: Querying it with curl (or another system requesting plain text) really only returns the IP, not some HTML page. (Opening it in the browser also shows some useful information about the request, but http://ifconfig.me/ip always shows just your IP address)

geocrasher
I can make a curl version of it at some point. For now, though, the point is that its JUST your IP. Nothing else. It's made for sending grandma's to.

EDIT: Now, best of both worlds. Reload the page and either highlight the page text or look in the source code for how to use it with curl and bash. I'm sure you can figure out your favorite parser for csv.

mfonda
Just a heads up that it's not working as expected in Chrome. I loaded the page and got an IP that wasn't mine, then refreshed the page and got a different IP that still wasn't mine. Upon further investigation, both incorrect IPs appear to be owned by CloudFlare.

Same results in Safari. Oddly enough, works as expected in Firefox.

geocrasher
Yeah I was initially testing it on Cloudflare but took it off because I didn't want to fiddle with the server. DNS might be cached for some reason. I switched over to my private nameservers for the time being.

Edit: Are you using 1.1.1.1 by chance? If so turn it off.

btgeekboy
Doesn’t seem to work for me on Safari/iOS.

Couple alternatives:

* Search Google or DDG for “my ip”.

* http://checkip.amazonaws.com/

treesknees
I like Amazon's page because it doesn't return any HTML, just a simple plaintext response which makes it simple to integrate into a script or bash one-liner. Also, Amazon is large enough that I'm confident they're not going to put in a captcha or rate limit.
redmattred
Where do I submit feature requests?
geocrasher
You can comment here for now.
redmattred
Was joking :) It does everything it says it will
geocrasher
Well in that case you can submit a pull request on my github repo. :D
lobsterboix
I love it, one thing it does, and that's it, 2 lines of text and the information i want. thank you for this tool.
kamray23
It's not just that. Take your cursor and drag over the site as if to paint the entire page for copying.
voussoir
Anyone who runs a website with nginx might find this directive helpful:

    location /whatsmyip {
        default_type text/plain;
        return 200 $remote_addr\n;
    }
luckman212
My favorite (very fast & lightweight)

    dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com
I_complete_me
This doesn't work for me for some reason.

I use:

dig TXT +short o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @ns1.google.com

which I've aliased to ipe

luckman212
That's neat, but you have to get rid of the quotes somehow.
nicbou
I use those that have IP geolocation or ISP info to confirm that my VPN or proxy works.

Otherwise I'm happy that you've made this. The world has fewer and fewer tools that do one thing well without asking anything of you.

Rastonbury
This doesn't work for me, I had a VPN and resreshed on and off and it doesn't change
ale42
Doesn't work with IPv6...