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
>>> import ipgetter
>>> myip = ipgetter.myip()
>>> myip
'8.8.8.8'
$ python -m ipgetter
'8.8.8.8'
# pip install ipgetter
Or download the tarball or git clone the repository and then:
# python setup.py install
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