About

This module is designed to fetch your external IP address from the internet. It is used mostly when behind a NAT. It picks your IP randomly from a serverlist to minimize request overhead on a single server

If you want to add or remove your server from the list contact me on github

Copyright © 2014 phoemur@gmail.com This work is free. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See http://www.wtfpl.net/ for more details.

API Usage

>>> import ipgetter
>>> myip = ipgetter.myip()
>>> myip
   '8.8.8.8'

Shell Usage

$ python -m ipgetter    
'8.8.8.8'

Installation

# pip install ipgetter

Or download the tarball or git clone the repository and then:

# python setup.py install

ChangeLog

0.6 (2014-10-30)

• 45 servers
• Simpler is better

0.5.2 (2014-08-12)

• Fix servers (current 42 servers)
• License

0.4 (2014-03-01)

• Serverlist = 44 servers
• Added timeout for getting the IP

0.3.2 (2014-03-01)

• Fix distutils issues

0.2 (2014-03-01)

• Fix python 2 backwards compatibility

0.1 (2014-02-28)

• You can retrieve your IP.
• Serverlist = 16 servers