How to get global ip address in python?

Question

I am converting bash code to python code. I got a global ip address of the own host in bash code by

hostname -I  # output -> 19x.xxx.xxx.xxx xxxx:xxxx:....

The 19x.xxx.xxx.xxx is the global ip address of the own host.

I tried to get the global ip address in python by

import socket
name=socket.gethostname()
id_address=socket.gethostbyname(name)
print("id_address = {0}".format(id_address))

The output was the local host address like

127.xxx.xxx.xxx

Do I have a way to get a global ip address in python?

Answer 1

You can do it without any external libraries:

import urllib.request

external_ip = urllib.request.urlopen('https://ident.me').read().decode('utf8')

print(external_ip)

This uses a website that gives you your public ipv4 address using only the standard library, which is great.

Code is tested on python3.

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