Getting external IP address

[Sergio Correia]

The above suggestions seem nice, but I find this one easier:

import urllib2
ext_ip = urllib2.urlopen('http://whatismyip.org/').read()
print ext_ip

The nice thing about the above code is that http://whatismyip.org/
only contains exactly what you want (the ip, nothing more, nothing
less), so no parsing is necessary

Best,
Sergio

On 3/6/07, Cousin Stanley <cousinstanley at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a PC behind a firewall, and I'm trying to programmatically
> > determine the IP address visible from outside the firewall.
> > ....
>
> Steven ....
>
>   Following is another alternative that might at least
>   be worth consideration ....
>
>   I use the  lynx  command shown as a command-line alias
>   under Debian linux ....
>
> >>>
> >>> import os
> >>>
> >>> pipe_in = os.popen( 'lynx --dump http://checkip.dyndns.org' )
> >>>
> >>> ip_addr = pipe_in.readlines()
> >>>
> >>> for this in ip_addr :
> ...     print this
> ...
>
>
>    Current IP Address: 65.39.92.38
>
>
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