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4 points by vivekv ↗ HN
I would like to present a simple API for obtaining the public IP address of the client. the API is fairly simple.

JSON

http://ipof.candralabs.com/json

XML

http://ipof.candralabs.com/xml

Plain text

http://ipof.candralabs.com/txt

Please share your feedback. What features would you like to have in this simple service?

4 comments

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jlgaddis
Why do you think something like this needs more "features"?

When I'm somewhere other than home and need to know my public IP address for some reason, I just use "icanhazip" [0] (GitHub: [1]) which I've aliased to make it even easier/quicker, e.g.:

  $ alias myip
  alias myip='curl http://icanhazip.com'
  $ myip
  192.0.2.42
It doesn't get much simpler than that -- just spit out the IP address in plain-text and, if needed, I'll massage it however I need to.

[0]: http://icanhazip.com/

[1]: https://github.com/major/icanhaz

lozf
I also like and use ipinfo.io in the same way... it adds a little location & ISP info.
detaro
IPv4/6 support is a big one (but not something new, many similar services have that also)
vivekv
I received a bunch of feature requests and here is the status

1. smaller URL : Changed it to ipof.in so the new URL is

http://ipof.in/json http://ipof.in/xml http://ipof.in/txt

2. HTTPS support

Done. same URLs as above, except in HTTPS format

3. Return the IP in the HTTP response headers

Done. Added header X-IPof : <ipaddress>

4. check if the IP is blacklisted

Done. Returns a blacklisted flag in the XML and JSON response.

5. Todo

IPv6 Geo location data

Hope this helps