Services that just return your public IP as text [closed]
I'm writing a script that does dynamic DNS updates for me, but my server is behind a router, and so I need to use a web service to determine my public IP.
So far I've found this one which returns just your plain IP. I was looking around trying to find a couple of alternatives to use in my script supposing that that one is down, but I can't find any others that return just the IP as plaintext.
These ones return some HTML, but I really don't want to bother parsing HTML when what the script needs to do is such a simple task.
Does anyone know of some other reliable services which return only your public IP in plaintext?
Solution 1:
Famous one – I can haz IP:
$ curl icanhazip.com
1.2.3.4
And that's it.
Solution 2:
I use http://checkip.amazonaws.com/
curl -s http://checkip.amazonaws.com/
(This form miscounts the above 82 characters as 15 characters, so I have to enter an extra sentence.)
Solution 3:
Or you could host your own. Use a free hosting company, and using PHP use a code like this:
<?php
echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
?>